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Child testing a homemade speaker created using a bowl In-person
Workshops
Technology and engineering
Holiday workshops: Loudspeakers and acoustics (ages 9 - 11)

Explore sound, build working speakers, and experiment with real acoustic principles.
Children are playing with a inflatable globe In-person
Workshops
Physics, Technology and engineering
Easter Holiday workshops: Skateboards to starships (age 12–14)
Child testing a homemade speaker created using a bowl In-person
Workshops
Technology and engineering
Holiday workshops: Loudspeakers and acoustics (ages 7 - 8)

Explore sound, build working speakers, and experiment with real acoustic principles.
Jim Al-Khalili in front of a dark background with an hourglass
The 2026 CHRISTMAS LECTURES®

Professor Jim Al-Khalili tackles the awe-inspiring science of time.
Person
John Davy (1790-1868)

John Davy was a medical doctor and the younger brother of Humphry Davy.
Small boy looking amazed at a science experiment while a photographer is capturing the moment in the background
Physics
Musical coat hangers

Try out an amazing trick with a coat hanger and some string, and think about the science of sound.
Still of Lawrence Bragg From the collection
History of science
Waves and vibrations

A pulsating journey through the nature of waves.
Maggie Aderin behind a desk with model planets atop it
CHRISTMAS LECTURES
Watch the 2025 CHRISTMAS LECTURES

Watch the 2025 CHRISTMAS LECTURES, Is There Life Beyond Earth?, with Maggie Aderin now on BBC iPlayer (UK) or on YouTube.
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