How lightning rods work | with The Royal Institution #lightningrods #science #shorts #sciencefacts // TRAIN BRAIN

How lightning rods work | with The Royal Institution #lightningrods #science #shorts #sciencefacts

How do lightning rods work? Take a look at this 1930s 'ThunderHouse' to find out.
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The solar system to scale with The Royal Institution #shorts #solarsystem #scale #scienceeducation

Why are humans getting smarter? Daniel Dennett explains #shorts #evolution #science #iq #flynneffect

The sun shines because of quantum tunnelling with Jim Al Khalili #quantum #shorts #quantumtunneling

How electrons were discovered | Suzie Sheehy #shorts #sciencefacts #electrons #scienceeducation

How lightning rods work | with The Royal Institution #lightningrods #science #shorts #sciencefacts

From the Lab: Treating cancer with light through photodynamic therapy - with Stephen Bown

Antimatter and why we exist with Tara Shears #shorts #antimatter #science #whyweexist #physics

The Science of Cooking: What's Really Happening to Your Food | with Ben Ebbrell & David Weitz

The Science of Cooking: What's Really Happening to Your Food | with Ben Ebbrell & David Weitz

How does loneliness affect the brain? with Bruce Hood #shorts #brain #psychology #loneliness

How emperature and kinetic energy works in space with Thomas Haworth #shorts #kineticenergy #space

Why physicists are so obsessed with black holes with James Beacham #shorts #blackholes #physics

AI is lying to humans to achieve its goals ? with Geoffrey Hinton #shorts #ai #chatgpt #futureofai

Colourful chemistry with Andrew Szydlo #shorts #chemistry #experiment #science #lecturer

What makes Magnus Carlsen so good? The psychology behind chess – with Fernand Gobet | Part 2

Perception gap between chess amateurs and grandmasters #chess #grandmaster #shorts #chesspsychology

Is your memory trustworthy? Psychologist Chris French on flawed eyewitness testimony #shorts #test

What makes Magnus Carlsen unbeatable? The psychology behind chess – with Fernand Gobet | Part 1

Optical illusions and how we percieve colour with Andrew Hansen #shorts #opticalillusion #science

Why is the UK climate so mild? with Anu Ojha OBE #science #space #weather #climate #shorts

David Attenborough explains why some animals glow in the dark #shorts #davidattenborough #lecture

Sir David Attenborough vs. a very cuddly lemur #shorts #davidattenborough #iconiclectures #lemurs

The time a praying mantis had a go at David Attenborough #shorts #davidattenborough #prayingmantis

Why glass doesn't melt with Anna Ploszajski #materialsscience #glass #shorts

"Don't give up on your crazy ideas until you know why they're crazy" with Geoffrey Hinton #shorts

Acoustic holography: Using sound waves to levitate matter | with Sriram Subramanian

Scientists trained WHO to diagnose breast cancer? with Hannah Fry #shorts #science #hannahfry

The science of lightsabers with Alex Baker #shorts #lightsabers #starwars #may4thbewithyou #science

The visual 'stories' of equations with Jim Gates #shorts #science #mathematics #jimgates #physics

Andrew Szydlo on the chemistry of acetylene combustion #shorts #andrewszydlo #acetylene #science

How does your brain ceate your sense of self? Part 2 with Anil Seth and Michael Pollan

How does Potassium and Calcium react in water? with Andrew Szydlo #scienceexperiment #chemistry

How does epigenetics impact the placenta? - with Jennifer Frost

Do humans have more genes than a banana? with Phillip Ball #shorts #genetics #science #phillipball

How does your brain create your sense of self? Part 1 with Anil Seth and Michael Pollan

What is chirality? Mirror-image forms with Jess Wade #shorts #science #chirality #scienceexplained

Why you wouldn't vacation on Venus - with Carl Sagan #shorts #space #science #venus #spacetravel

The hottest topic in astronomy with Chris Lintott #shorts #astronomy #science #space #planets

There are mathematical patterns in everything - with Hannah Fry #shorts #mathematics #hannahfry

Prime numbers in Shakespeare? with Marcus du Sautoy #shorts #shakespeare #primenumber #mathematics

Quicksilver, alchemy & Faraday's motor – Part 2 with Andrew Szydlo

How does survivorship bias work? #shorts #science #survivorshipbias #ww2

Quicksilver, alchemy & Faraday's motor – Part 1 with Andrew Szydlo

Do Your Genes Make You Fat? with Giles Yeo #shorts #genetics #genes #science

What does your body do in the cold? Christmas Lectures 1998 with Nancy Rothwell #shorts #science

Why are sea levels rising? with oceanographer John Englander #shorts #science #sealevels

How rockets lift off #science #shorts #demonstration #rocketlaunch #rocketscience #newtonthirdlaw

A strange thing about metronomes with Hannah Fry #shorts #hannahfry #maths #metronomes

What happens when quartz is mechanically stressed? with Felix Flicker #shorts #science #sciencefacts

Why astronomers think we're close to discovering life in space with Chris Impey #shorts #space

The science of reading alien atmospheres with Jonathan Tennyson | The Royal Institution

How explosive is nitrogen triiodide #shorts #sciencedemo

Why air is needed for the transmission of sound- Christmas Lecture 1989 with Charles Taylor #shorts

how synaesthesia develops with Mary Jane Spiller #shorts #synaesthesia #science #psychology

The step by step of a rocket launch with Kevin Fong #shorts #rocketlaunch #science

Your feet are aging slower than your head - with Vlatko Vedral #shorts #science #gravity #physics

Earth meteorites found on the moon? with Robin George Andrews #shorts #space #science

Why can fire be different colours? Flame demo with The Royal Institution #shorts #spectroscopy

How an aircraft engineer designed the Vespa with César Hidalgo #shorts #science #engineeringhistory

The forbidden doughnut with the Ri #science #plasma #sciencedemo #physics

How babies get jaundice: Christmas Lectures 1987 with John Meruig Thomas and David Phillips #shorts

Elephants can't dance, but hamsters can - Mark Miodownik 2010 Christmas Lectures 1/3

The History of Man - Simon Conway Morris's 1996 Christmas Lectures 5/5

The Great Dyings: Life After Death - Simon Conway Morris's 1996 Christmas Lectures 3/5

Innovations and Novelty - Simon Conway Morris's 1996 Christmas Lectures 4/5

The Fossils Come Alive - Simon Conway Morris's 1996 Christmas Lectures 2/5

Staring into the abyss - Simon Conway Morris's 1996 Christmas Lectures 1/5

The secret paths of global knowledge transfer - with Cesar Hidalgo

From the Lab: How mathematics is powering medical innovation – Ri Science Podcast with Becky Shipley

Waterworld - James Jackson's 1995 Christmas Lectures 5/5

The Puzzle of the Continents - James Jackson's 1995 Christmas Lectures 4/5

Volcanoes: Melting The Earth - James Jackson's 1995 Christmas Lectures 3/5

Secrets of the Deep - James Jackson's 1995 Christmas Lectures 2/5

On The Edge Of The World - James Jackson's 1995 Christmas Lectures 1/5

Why every diagram you've seen of the solar system is wrong #spacescience #solarsystem

Engineering's secret weapon: How ultrasound spots structural problems - with Rachel Edwards

Searching the Solar System - Christmas Lectures 2025 with Maggie Aderin-Pocock 2/3

To the Stars and Beyond - Christmas Lectures 2025 with Maggie Aderin-Pocock 3/3

What it's really like on the International Space Station #christmaslectures #spacetravel #timpeake

How Earth's deepest oceans reveal the possibility of alien life #spacetravel #scienceeducation