3.6K views · 55 reactions | At this festive time of year, BBC Archive brings you the ghost of Christmas Lectures past. Go science! This year's lectures end today. | BBC Archive | Facebook

A Christmas Lecturer's favourite Christmas Lectures 🌟 We sat down with 1987 lecturer David Phillips to reminisce on his time here at the Ri, walking in the footsteps of Michael Faraday and joining him in the history books. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=hu0ATx1OLfo | Royal Institution of Great Britain

Here's what Carl Sagan thought an effective message to extraterrestrial life forms could've looked like 📡 The great astronomer and science communicator was born #OnThisDay in 1934. Watch his out-of-this-world 1977 Christmas Lectures, now digitally remastered: rigb.org/explore-science/explore/video/planets-earth-planet-1977 | Royal Institution of Great Britain

441K views · 2.8K reactions | The Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI , start TONIGHT! Chris van Tulleken will guide us through the surprising science of food, revealing...  How we taste food  What makes food appetising  How digestion works ...and more! Tune into BBC Four or iPlayer at 9pm to watch! | Royal Institution of Great Britain | Facebook

🕯️ 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