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Lead: A Toxic Legacy

Evidence that childhood lead exposure caused stunted intelligence and behavioural...

How Cancer Genomics is Transforming Cancer Care

Using lung cancer as a case study, this lecture will...

Living With the Forever Chemicals

The forever chemicals, or PFAS (Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances)...

Microbial Master-Chemists

Microbial chemistry makes bread rise and cheese mature, and turns...

The Maths of Game Theory

When we buy, sell, bargain, barter, bid at auctions, and...

This lecture will explore Napoleon‘s life through his interactions with the natural world and a series of gardens that were important to him during the rise and fall of his power. The point of doing this is to approach his life from oblique angles, exploring material that is often overlooked.

What Clinicians Can Learn From Forensic Scientists

Clinical practice depends on the acquisition and analysis of evidence - detailed information from each patient’s clinical history, laboratory tests, imaging scans and biopsies. Yet data on its own is not enough, and must always be interpreted in the context of each unique person.

George IV: Radical or Reactionary?

On the 200th anniversary of George IV's accession to the throne, this lecture considers whether or not he had any real impact on the fast-industrialising world around him, and the turbulent political times he lived through.

The Origins of the Elements

In this talk, Dr Wilkins will discuss the astrophysical origins of the chemical elements, almost all of which have an origin ranging from the big bang, to exploding white dwarfs, the collapse of massive stars, and the merger of ultra-compact objects, neutron stars.

Energy and Matter at the Origin of Life

The origin of life is one of the biggest questions in science, but until recently it was, experimentally, a question in chemistry. Now, gene sequences and a better understanding of cell growth under extreme conditions are giving insights from biology.

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