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Is there a point at which more CO2 will not cause further warming?
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Climate change: evidence and causes
View our updated content Climate Change: answers to key questions including: How do scientists know that recent climate change is largely caused by human activities? How fast is sea level rising? And is there a point at which adding more CO2 will not cause further warming?
The artist Léon Spilliaert’s battle with insomnia played a key part in the production of his mysterious night-time scenes, created following his nocturnal walks around his hometown of Ostend. Taking Spilliaert’s work as a starting point, Professor Russell Foster and artist Tom Hammick examine how changes to our natural circadian rhythm and exposure to lightness and darkness affect the mind and can influence an artist’s creativity and inspiration.
The Royal Society Lates: Science Fiction evening explored what scientists of the past thought about how we would be living now and how accurate their predictions were. Listen now to our recordings of the talks from the event:
Beyond Discworld BBC CrowdScience's Marnie Chesterton quizzes the man behind the Science of Discworld, mathematician and Honorary Wizard of the Unseen University, Professor Ian Stewart.Listen now
Elois vs Morlocks: Darwinism and Victorian Sci-Fi In celebration of the 125th anniversary of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, Professor Matthew Beaumont explores Darwinian thought and challenges to the theories of evolutionary change from the late-Victorian era.Listen now
The science of Frankenstein In her discussion of the science of life and death in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Professor Sharon Rushton travels back to a time when people worried that their corpses might be robbed from their graves for use in medical experiments.Listen now
Waves, particles and pronouns In the early twentieth century, physicists were exploring quantum ideas, where particles and waves were no longer one or the other; they could be both. Dr Rachel Crossland will discuss Virginia Woolf's use of these ideas and her portrayal of gender in her 1928 novel, Orlando.Listen now
New findings with vaccinia virus, the old vaccine that eradicated smallpox
In 1980 the WHO declared smallpox eradicated. Yet forty years later, variola virus, the cause of smallpox, remains in high security labs in USA and Russia. Professor Geoffrey L Smith, winner of the 2019 Leeuwenhoek Medal, describes how smallpox was eradicated, the lessons for the control of other infectious diseases, and the post eradication debate of what to do with variola virus.
Putting the sun in a bottle: the path to delivering sustainable fusion power
Fusion is the process that powers the Sun and in theory, fusion offers the potential for carbon-free, effectively limitless, continuous electricity, if only it can be harnessed here on Earth. On 29 April, Professor Ian Chapman presents the latest attempts to make fusion power on a commercial scale and explores the challenges.
Computer Scientist Wendy Hall talks to Brian Cox about one of her personal heroes, Alan Turing, and discusses how his discoveries influenced so much in the modern world.
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