Human Livelihoods Depend on Wild Flowers: Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank explained In this talk Dr Robin Probert explains why human livelihoods...
To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes...
Whither to the Creeping Paralysis? Progress on the road to curing motor neuron disease The lecture will cover a description of how we diagnose...
The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Development in the Western World since 1700 BOOK LAUNCH At the end of the eighteenth century, the...
Sir Hans Sloane: 350 years of preserving history An overview of the history of botanical collecting: the characters...
Why is Africa still the poorest continent? Among 29 countries where human life expectancy is still 50...
Costing the arms race: drugs, super-bugs and the appliance of science Does the spread of multiply-resistant microbes signal the end of...