The Royal Society (videos of May 2017)

source: The Royal Society
0:40 Young People's Book Prize 2017: THIS LITTLE PEBBLE The full shortlist of six books for this year's Royal Society Young People's Book Prize and more information on the prize is available to view https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-pr...
0:39 Young People's Book Prize 2017: THE AWESOME BODY BOOK The full shortlist of six books for this year's Royal Society Young People's Book Prize and more information on the prize is available to view https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-pr...
0:40 Young People's Book Prize 2017: IF... The full shortlist of six books for this year's Royal Society Young People's Book Prize and more information on the prize is available to view https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-pr...
0:39 Young People's Book Prize 2017: HOME LAB The full shortlist of six books for this year's Royal Society Young People's Book Prize and more information on the prize is available to view https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-pr...
0:41 Young People's Book Prize 2017: FIRST BOOK OF ANIMALS The full shortlist of six books for this year's Royal Society Young People's Book Prize and more information on the prize is available to view https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-pr...
0:39 Young People's Book Prize 2017: 100 THINGS ABOUT SPACE The full shortlist of six books for this year's Royal Society Young People's Book Prize and more information on the prize is available to view https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-pr...
5:27 Convergent Minds Guest editors, Dr Corina Logan and Professor Nicola Clayton, chat to us about their recent Interface Focus issue 'Convergent minds: the evolution of cognitive complexity in nature'. Read the full i...
11:04 A Q&A with our Croonian Prize winner, Professor Jonathan Ashmore Professor Jonathan Ashmore FRS answers questions from the audience at our recent Croonian Lecture.
The lecture was recorded on May 15 2017 at the Royal Society. For more events like this, see our ...
56:10 Now you hear it, now you don’t: the neuroscience of deafness Croonian Prize Lecture 2017 by Professor Jonathan Ashmore FMedSci FRS
What makes hearing possible? Just the size of a pea, the cochlea of the inner ear allows you to detect anything from a pin dro...
11:21 A Q&A with our Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal winner, Professor Jon Agar Professor Jon Agar answers questions from the audience at our recent Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture.
The lecture was recorded on April 4 2017 at the Royal Society. For more events like this, see o...
51:47 The curious history of curiosity-driven research Professor Jon Agar asks why scientists say they ask ‘why?’, and traces the curious history of the idea of curiosity-driven science; as he explores the curious place of curiosity in the history of s...
1:03:33 Can we understand an insect society, and why should we care? International lecture by Professor Raghavendra Gadagkar.
Many insects such as ants, bees and wasps organise themselves into societies with sophisticated communication and division of labour, paral...
30:40 A Q&A with our Kavli Medal & Lecture winner, Professor Henry Snaith Professor Henry Snaith FRS answers questions from the audience at our recent Kavli Lecture.
The lecture was recorded on April 26 2017 at the Royal Society. For more events like this, see our sched...
28:33 Photovoltaic solar energy - Kavli Lecture by Professor Henry Snaith For the last 60 years scientist and engineers have been striving to make electronic devices which convert sun light directly into usable electricity. These photovoltaic cells are now so efficient t...