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Professor Chris Bishop rehearses for his Science of Fireworks event at the Ri by exploding a hydrogen balloon in the Faraday Theatre. Filmed on a Google Nexus S by our intern Ed. Find out more about the event here: http://bit.ly/uoAKyo The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

The Ri's Andy Marmery explains the safest way to handle cryogenic material. (Please do not try this at home). The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

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The ident for the Ri Channel (beta).

The Ri's very own demo technician, Andrew Marmery experiments with the element Argon in the Ri Prep Room. At room temperature Argon is an inert gas, requiring temperatures of below -189.3 degrees Celsius to freeze into a solid. The temperature range at which Argon exists as a liquid is extremely narrow (three/ four degress). As it begins to melt under room temperature it passes into its gas state almost instaneously. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Check our playlist "Tales from the Prep Room" here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnrZHfNEDZyfUXqroIlSf2hOznnThqM0 The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

See the event presentation slides here: http://slidesha.re/12ffhjc The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the most powerful particle collider ever built and has been described as the world's biggest science experiment. Designed to answer the unknowns in particle physics, including the reason for so little antimatter in the universe and the exact locations of dark matter and the missing Higgs particle, the LHC is capable of recreating the conditions that were in existence one fraction of a second after the Big Bang. Tara takes the stage at The Royal Institution to reveal what has been discovered at the LHC since its first year of operation. This event took place at the Ri on Wednesday 19 October 2011. The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

In his talk at the Ri Unconference 2011, science communicator and teacher Alom Shah

Does responsibility for

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock provides an overview of her unconventional career path to becoming a space scientist, including how her fascination with the moon started with The Clangers. She challenges delegates to tackle the stereotypes of science careers, encouraging them to p

Should it be the media or scientists who control science in the media? Are the m

Held in September 2011, the Unconference aimed to get young people to think seriously and crea

In the second of his Tales from the Prep Room, Ri Demo Technician Andrew Marmery uses wire and a laser pen to recreate the famous cross-shaped diffraction patterns observed by Rosalind Franklin in 1952. The biophysicist captured "Photograph 51" of DNA whilst working at Kings College London. The photo -- which revealed the structure of DNA -- was later used by James D. Watson and Francis Crick as the basis for their famous model of the double helix. By shining a laser through different configurations of wire, Andy is able to change the resulting diffraction pattern. Theoretically, he could then work backwards from each pattern to deduce the original position of each wire. It is this idea that forms the basis of X-ray crystallography, using x-rays instead of laser light, and atoms instead of wires. X-ray crystallography allowed Rosalind Franklin to determine the 3D structure of DNA by analysing the X-ray diffraction patterns of crystals made up of the molecule. The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

Professor Bruce Hood heads to the famous Ri Theatre to talk about the first of

Professor Bruce Hood takes a break from rehearsals to share his Christmas Lecture

Professor Bruce Hood describes the many voices in his head just before recording the second of

Professor Bruce Hood grabs a moment with the Ri Channel team to sum up his thoughts before filming his third and final Christmas Lecture. The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

We grab a moment with Professor Bruce Hood at the Christmas Lectures wrap party and ask him to sum

The Ri Christmas Lectures in 2011 will be presented by Professor Bruce Hood. Watch on BBC Four, iPlayer and catch up right here, on the Ri Channel, in January. Lecture 1: What's in your head? 27 December, 8pm, BBC Four Lecture 2: Who's in charge here anyway? 28 December, 8pm, BBC Four Lecture 3: Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 29 December, 8pm, BBC Four The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

The Ri's Andrew Marmery takes a break from Christmas Lecture rehearsals to describe how he design

Professor Bruce Hood provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Christmas Lectures. Wat

Try the stroop test for yourself. Say out loud the colour of the words, not the word itself. This was one of the

It's difficult to see what's wrong with this image until you turn it the right way round. For the 2011 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Prof Brian Cox very kindly agreed to let us use his face for the classic inverted face illusion. The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter