The secret's out! 🚀 The 2025 Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI, will be presented by Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, and will be about outer space and all the scientific wonders beyond planet Earth. We can't wait until December! Find out more: rigb.org/christmas-lectures | Royal Institution of Great Britain

This was the best TV entrance of 2021. Don't bother looking for a worthy contender, we checked. The #XmasLectures with Jonathan Van-Tam are on our website and available around the world! 🦠 Watch here: rigb.org/christmas-lectures | Royal Institution of Great Britain

🕯️ Christmas Lectures iconic object no. 4 – from various lectures in the 1800s, with Michael Faraday This is Michael Faraday's candle holder, used when delivering the popular lecture series "A Chemical History of a Candle" in the mid-1800s, which helped audiences step into the world of science through a familiar household object. The lectures were later published as a book, in which Faraday wrote: "There is not a law under which any part of this universe is governed which does not come into pla

the best gift ever!!! 😍 merry christmas! 🎁 #popsmomskael #kaellim #christmas #merrychristmas | Pops, Moms & Kael Lim

Have you ever experienced a "carb coma"? 🍝 Chris van Tulleken shares why it's difficult to study this phenomenon. For an extra helping of food science, watch the 2024 Christmas Lectures 29, 30 and 31 December on BBC Four and iPlayer. | Royal Institution of Great Britain