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The Annual Sir Thomas Gresham Lecture 2026

This is the Annual Sir Thomas Gresham Lecture.

Portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham

The Shape of Knots: From DNA to Shoestrings and Solar Flares

Knots are ubiquitous in the world around us, appearing as...

A close-up of a thick, white, coiled rope with a blue stripe

Happily Ever After? Singing and Dancing Cinderella

Why has the Cinderella story given rise to so many...

A glass slipper on a red cushion, a pumpkin, a clock, pearls, a lace glove, and two mice in a dark, whimsical setting

The Universe’s 100th Birthday: Galactic Fireworks and Little Red Dots

100 years ago this year, Edwin Hubble published the first...

Interacting spiral galaxies Arp 273, with the larger galaxy tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by its companion

The Nutcracker’s Musical Magic

What musical tools does Tchaikovsky use to illustrate magic in...

A traditional wooden nutcracker soldier stands in front of a festive red sparkly background

From Mars with Love: Postcards from 50 Years of Exploring The Red Planet

During the fifty years since the launch of the Viking...

Image of Mars viewed from space

How It Ends: What We Know about the Fate of the Universe

How will it all end? Predicting the far future of...

Image of a black hole

Shakespeare’s Musical Fairies

Written in the era of the founding of Gresham College...

Fairy dancing in forest under full moon

Earth – Our Planetary Life Support System

Planet Earth is an intricate and interconnected system, with some...

Sun, Earth, and Moon seen from space with a starry background.

A New Sky

The JWST is the most expensive and powerful telescope astronomers...

a man looking at the JWST