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Wed 26 Oct 2022

Discover the amazing science inside humankind's greatest discovery: fire!

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Meet Professor Dame Sue Black, DBE - this year's lecturer for the Royal Institution's CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal

In the 2022 CHRISTMAS LECTURES, Professor Dame Sue Black will share secrets of the scientific detective process.

Biology and the human body

How did the complexity of life evolve? Was it via finely-tuned natural selection, or a more messy process altogether?

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