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    • Lecture Reports
      • The Hubble Space Telescope at 36 years old
      • The Chemistry of Cooking
      • St. Petersburg Sea Defences
      • AI for a Happy Christmas
      • The RAU Herbarium
      • Expect the Unexpected
      • The Role of Physical Activity in Aging
      • CSTS - What is Going On in Iceland? The Island's Geology and Volcanoes.
      • The Post Office Computer Scandal - and How to make sure it doesn't happen to you
      • Chocolate Chemistry; All You Want to Know about Chocolate but Were Afraid to Ask
      • The Science Behind Creating the Best Pint - the Role & Evolution of Yeast in Brewing
      • Ediacaran Biota and the Charnia Fossil
      • The EarthCARE Mission
      • Epigenetics: DNA Is Not Your Destiny
      • Introduction to the Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor
      • Digital Fossils: Using X-rays to Uncover Secrets of the Past
      • Predators and People: a Deadly Balance
      • Alpine F1 Aerodynamics
      • The Plague of Justinian and the End of the Ancient World
      • Meat and Two Veg: How Your Sunday Roast Affects Bowel Cancer Risk. Recent Research on Dietary Iron
      • Hypochlorous acid ….. a drop of hope?
      • Rosetta – Space Mission to a Comet
      • Why does Rudolf have a Shiny Nose?
      • The Herschels in Bath - Music, Science and Social Climbing
      • Chasing the Dragon: Moon Power and Tidal Bores
      • The Hands Free Hectare
      • Deep Learning
      • The Poisons of Agatha Christie
      • Space Debris
      • Climate and Flood Prediction: Flood Forecasting Systems for Disaster Risk Reduction
      • An Undergraduate Medical Education; Science, Technology or Art?
      • Current Threats to our Water Birds: the Case Studies for Avian Influenza and Lead Poisoning
      • Giving Our Rivers a Voice – The current state of rivers in the UK and why we should all care
      • Electricity Generation in GB, Past, Present and Future
      • Clocks Winding Down: How Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Change as We Age
      • CSTS Drones and Aerial Imaging for Archaeologists - Past and Present
      • The Forensic Pathology of the Female Saxon Skull discovered in the River Coln at Fairford in 2013
      • Marine Plastics - from Local to Global
      • Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World
      • The Psychology of Disaster
      • H2O in Paradise
      • Daffodils for brain tumours, Grandifolia for Pancreatic Cancer and other useful plant alkaloids
      • Thinking Better- the Art of the Shortcut
      • The “Nuts and Bolts” of CRISPR-Cas Technology and its Use Against Antimicrobial Resistance in the food chain
      • Light Years Ahead, the 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
      • Radio Telescopes
      • Reconstructing Prehistoric Landscapes Helped by Snails, Soils and Sediments
      • A Digital Twin for the Clifton Suspension Bridge
      • Liquid Crystals and Lighting up Gold(III)
      • Anaesthesia, past, present and future
      • Air Pollution and Health
      • Training for the Future - Re-opening the Cirencester to Kemble Railway
      • Why Measurement Matters and the Redefinition of Base SI units. The Wheeler Lecture
      • Nature, Nuclear Energy and Life
      • Multiple Sclerosis - Natural History & Future Prospects
      • The Secret Life of 'Flu
      • The Blockchain and Crypto-Currencies
      • The Cheltenham Branch of Mr. Brunel’s Great West Railway
      • Waiting for the Spring
      • Handling Wicked Problems - The emergence of a holistically-oriented science and the implications for hard and soft technology development and selection.
      • The Rosetta Mission, the Link Between Science and Technology
      • Metals in Medicine – the Use of Stents
      • Silk – Its Source, Chemistry and Uses
      • Electrification of the Great Western Railway
      • Active Galaxies
      • Fiat Lux – Using Light to Treat Disease
      • Fungus Wars
      • Testing the Water: Innovation and the management of Britain’s most precious resource
      • Ecology and the Ends of the Earth
      • Engineering Espionage - How Technological Innovation has Shaped Secret Intelligence
      • DNA - A victim of its own levels of Sensitivity?
      • The Wheeler Lecture : How Big is my Data?
      • Catalysts:From Biofuels to Self-healing Aeroplanes
      • Rolls Royce Aero
      • Nitrogen and Humanity - a perpetual crisis
      • Volcano Monitoring with Citizen Scientists
      • The Origin of Taste
      • The Secret Life of your Mobile Phone
      • The Map that Changed the World
      • How Chemical Fossils help us Understand past Greenhouse Climates & Future Ones
      • Epigenetics - The Missing Link Between Nature and Nurture?
      • The Monster That Wasn't - Or Was It?
      • Defending Planet Earth
      • Power from Light
      • The Ethical Roboticist
      • Fusion - Within Our Grasp?
      • Use of Hydrogen as a Low Carbon Energy Vector
      • The Role of Plant Roots in Preventing Soil Erosion
      • Getting Hotter: the effect of Climate Change on Wildlife in Gloucestershire and the UK
      • Left and Right: The Mathematics of Chirality from Darwin's Perversion to Feyman's Obsession
      • Small Science
      • Geohazards Globally
      • Exploring Giant Waves in the Atmosphere over the Mountains of the Andes, Antarctica & Southern Islands
      • Construction, Operation and Decommissioning Nuclear Plant
      • No More Drugs for Superbugs
      • Bras to Bridges
      • Environmental effects and monitoring of nuclear power plants
      • Germ Warfare
      • How Quantum Physics Democratized Music
      • Computing for the Future of the Planet
      • Citizen Science
      • Tracking changes in nutrient cycling from the past to the present: is the world awash with nitrogen?
      • Malaria: the 2000 year old killer, and the production of preventive treatments
      • The UK's Atmospheric Research Aircraft
      • Crocodiles, Pills and pH: Some chemistry in Birth Control History
      • Safety and Accident Investigations
      • Reverse Engineering the Violin
      • The Aurora Borealis
      • Volcanoes, Earthquakes & Tsunamis
      • Hedonics, or the study of happiness: a load of old rubbish or a new hard science?
      • Modern Cryptography – A Mathematician in Cyberspace
      • What Science & Technology can do for UK Agriculture
      • Using Lidar to see through trees
      • A Little Light Relief
      • Use of Hydrogenas a Low-Carbon Energy Vector
      • Extremophiles - Plants or Animals
      • Modelling Networks: The British Railway System 1845-2012
      • Aerosols - The X-Factor?
      • Nuclear Fusion Potential & Present Status
      • Green (and Brown and Red) Prospects for Algal Biofuels
      • Virtual Fossils
      • The Effects of Acid Rain
      • Rolls Royce Heritage Collections at Derby
      • Decoding the Wheat Genome
      • The Evolution of Biodiversity
      • Early Settlers in South West England
      • Global Water Security
      • The UK Space Agency
      • Who Owns Dogs and What Do They Do With Them?
      • The Future of Human Reproduction
      • Putting Population at the Heart of Sustainability
      • To Infinity and Beyond
      • The Quantification of Personal Risk
      • From Engineering to Clinical Practice
      • Bumps, Blips and Bulges – the Science of Localised Things
      • The geoarchaeology of the Severn Estuary
      • The History of Flooding on the River Severn
      • Biogeoengineering Solutions to Climate Change
      • Stem Cell Biology and the Promise of Regenerative Medicine
      • Fruits of Curiosity: Science, Innovation and Future Sources of Wealth
      • Stealing Ideas from Nature
      • Self-replicating Machines - An end to Shopping, Waste & Industry?
      • Where Now - Post Copenhagen?
      • Global Challenges - Chemical Solutions
      • Darwin and the Fossil Record
      • What role does Science play in food safety and healthy eating?
      • Current Challenges for Conservation in Historic Properties
      • The March of Unreason
      • We Are Watching You
      • Wind Energy: Technology and Ploitics
      • Biomedical Sciences: Opportunities and Challenges in a Changing World
      • Climate Change and the Energy Challenge
      • Learning Lessons from the 2007 Floods
      • How Silicon Ship Design is enabling consumers to use the latest Technology – Touch is the New Click
      • Some Epidemic Diseases of Animals
      • Killing cancer from within: when cell death is the cure
      • Archaeology:From Dating Roack Art to Prehistoric Diet
      • 20th Century – the last Century of Youth
      • Can Fuel Cells Compete?
      • The Science of Cooking
      • The Ecological Consequences of Removing Badgers from an Ecosystem
      • Unpredictability and Chance in Science & Technology
      • Introducing Renewable Energy to the Energy Mix
      • Climate Change Debate
      • Plants for Life?
      • Genetic Fortune Telling
      • Nanoscience, carbon and quantum computers
      • Whittle - the Jet Pioneer
      • Fast Track Development of Fusion Power
      • Blood of the Isles
      • What a good cup of tea can do
      • Engineering: The Ultimate Reality Show
      • The Art of Concealment
      • Dust till Dawn: Exploring saharan Dust Storms and their Influence on Climate Change
      • Nanotechnology: Seven Wonders of a Small World
      • Broad Shoulders: Trail Blazing the UK Wave Energy Project
      • The Brunel Legacy
      • The Patricia Clarke Lecture - Hard Choices for Tomorrow's World
      • The Impermanence of Mathematics
      • The Holly and the Ivy
      • Design Close to My Heart
      • Fighting a Family Curse: Inherited Sudden Death Syndrome
      • Opening Lecture for 'Tree of Life Exhibition'
      • The History of the SS Great Britain and its Recent Refurbishment
      • Edward Jenner: Local Man: Global impact
      • The Eugenic Darwins
    • Members' Papers
      • A Review of the Royal Society Report on Geoengineering
      • The Gloucestershire Floods 2007
      • The Gloucestershire Floods, July 2007: An Emergency in Progress
      • Climate Change: The Road from Rio to Copenhagen
      • Hedonics, or the study of happiness: a load of old rubbish or a new hard science?
      • Decommissioning Nuclear Power Stations
      • A note on Gravitational Waves
    • Visit Reports
      • Rolls Royce Heritage at Derby
      • Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
      • Oxford Botanic Garden
      • National Physical Laboratory at Teddington
      • The Tank Museum at Bovington
    • News
      • Newsletter Winter 2006
      • Newsletter Summer 2020
      • Newsletter Autumn 2018
    • The Bookshelf
      • Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
      • The Human Mind
      • Fred Hoyle: A Life in science
      • Of Moths and Men
      • The Common Thread
      • The Fly in the Cathedral
  • Lectures, Visits and Events
    • Lecture
      • The Post Office Computer Scandal -and- How to make sure it doesn't happen to you
      • ‘Testing the Water’: Innovation and the management of Britain’s most precious resource
      • A Day in the Life of Sir Mark Walport FRS
      • A Digital Twin for the Clifton Suspension Bridge
      • Active Galaxies
      • Aerosols: The X Factor
      • AI for a Merrier Christmas
      • Air Pollution and Health
      • An Undergraduate Medical Education; Science, Technology or Art
      • Anaesthesia, past, present and future
      • Artful Computing
      • Biogeochemical Modelling and Remote Sensing of Ocean Carbon and Biodiversity
      • Black Holes
      • Bless you! All fall down. The secret life of a devastating virus
      • Bras and Bridges
      • Casting Stones at Napier’s Bones
      • Catalysts: From Biofuels to Self-Healing Aeroplanes
      • Chasing the Dragon: Moon Power and Tidal Bores
      • Chemistry of Cooking
      • Chocolate Chemistry; All You Want to Know about Chocolate but Were Afraid to Ask
      • Cirencester - Its Local Geology
      • Citizen Science
      • Climate and Flood Prediction: Using Flood Forecasting Systems to Inform Disaster Risk Reduction Solutions.
      • Clocks Winding Down: How Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Change as We Age
      • Computing for the Future of the Planet
      • Construction, Operation and Decommissioning of Nuclear Plant
      • Crocodiles, Pills and pH: Some Chemistry in Birth Control History
      • Current Threats to our Water Birds: the Case Studies for Avian Influenza and Lead Poisoning.
      • Daffodils for brain tumours, Grandifolia for Pancreatic Cancer and other useful plant alkaloids
      • Deep Learning
      • Defending Planet Earth
      • Digital fossils: Using X-rays to Uncover Secrets of the Past
      • Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World
      • Diving Through Exoplanet Atmospheres
      • DNA- a victim of its own levels of sensitivity?
      • Drones and Aerial Imaging for Archaeologists - Past and Present
      • EarthCARE Mission
      • Ecology at the Ends of the Earth
      • Ediacaran Biota and the Charnia Fossil
      • Edward Jenner: Local Man : Global Impact
      • Electricity - Past, Present and Future
      • Engineering Espionage: how technological innovation has shaped secret intelligence
      • Epigenetics - the missing link between nature and nurture?
      • Epigenetics – Why DNA is Not your Destiny
      • Exploring Giant Waves in the Atmosphere over the Mountains of the Andes, Antarctica & Southern Islands
      • Extremophiles
      • Fiat Lux – Using Light to Treat Disease - Note the DATE!
      • Flying and Sailing for a Living
      • Formula 1 Aerodynamics
      • Fungus Wars
      • Fusion - within our grasp?
      • Geohazards Globally
      • Germ Warfare
      • Getting Hotter: the effect of Climate Change on Wildlife in Gloucestershire and the UK
      • Giving Our Rivers a Voice – The current state of rivers in the UK and why we should all care
      • Green (and Brown and Red)Prospects for Algal Biofuels
      • H2O in Paradise
      • Handling Wicked Problems - The emergence of a holistically-oriented science and the implications for hard and soft technology development and selection.
      • Hedonics - The Scientific Study of Happiness
      • How an Infinitely Repeating Pattern Discovered in a Plastic Molecule Relates to Obscure 19th Century Maths – and Romanesco Broccoli.
      • How big is my data?
      • How chemical fossils help us understand past greenhouse climates... and future ones
      • How Quantum Physics Democratised Music
      • How science can help British Agriculture
      • How to Expect the Unexpected
      • Hypochlorous acid ….. a drop of hope?
      • Insect Pest and Vector Control: GM technologies, risks and regulation
      • Introduction to the Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor
      • Kinetic Toys at Brewery Arts
      • Kisspeptins, the Story So Far
      • Left and Right: The Mathematics of Chirality from Darwin's Perversion to Feynman's Obsession
      • Light Years Ahead, the 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
      • Liquid Crystals and Lighting up Gold(III)
      • Malaria: the 2000 year old killer and the production of malarial treatments
      • Mammoths in the Cotswolds
      • Marine plastics - from Local to Global
      • Marine Plastics - from Local to Global – joint lecture with RSC
      • Meat and Two Veg: How Your Sunday Roast Affects Bowel Cancer Risk. Recent Research on Dietary Iron.
      • Metals in Medicine – the Use of Stents
      • Modelling Networks: The British Railway System 1845-2012
      • Modern Cryptography
      • Multiple Sclerosis: Natural History and Future Prospects
      • Nature, Nuclear Energy and LIfe
      • Nitrogen and humanity: a perpetual crisis
      • Nitrogen Pollution
      • No More Drugs for Superbugs - The End of the Antibiotic Age?
      • Nuclear Fusion Potential & Present Status
      • Photochemistry - A Little Light Relief
      • POSTPONED to next programme - Reconstructing Pre-historic Landscapes helped by Snails, Soils and Sediments - Joint lecture with CAHS
      • Predators and People: a Deadly Balance
      • Professor Stephen Hawking & the Exhibits at the Hawking Building, Science and Innovation Park, Science Museum Group, Wroughton, Swindon
      • Psychology and Magic
      • Quantum Computing: Specifically, QUARTET at Harwell
      • Radio Telescopes: How they work and what they can do
      • Reconstructing Prehistoric Landscapes Helped by Snails, Soils and Sediments
      • Reverse Engineering the Violin
      • Rolls Royce Aero
      • Rosetta – Space Mission to a Comet
      • Russian Sea Defences: Technical and Logistic Problems Relating to Large National Construction Infrastructure Schemes
      • Safety and Accident Investigations
      • Silk – Its Source, Chemistry and Uses for the Benefit of Humanity
      • Small Science - Big Future....
      • Space Debris
      • Structure Formation in Bread and Cakes
      • Technological Progress in the NHS and the Price of Success
      • The “nuts and bolts” of CRISPR-Cas technology and its use against antimicrobial resistance in the food chain
      • The Antikythera Mechanism of the Ancient Orrary of Rhodes
      • The Aurora Borealis
      • The Birth of British Aviation - Prisoners of Hope
      • The Blockchain and Crypto-Currencies - Everybody’s Heard of Them, but How do They Work?
      • The Cheltenham Branch of Mr. Brunel’s Great West Railway
      • The Environmental Effects and Monitoring of Nuclear Power Generation
      • The Ethical Roboticist
      • The Eugenic Darwins
      • The Forensic Pathology of the Female Saxon Skull discovered in the River Coln at Fairford in 2013
      • The Great Western Electrification– the Biggest Change Since Brunel
      • The Hands Free Hectare
      • The Herschels in Bath - Music, Science and Social Climbing
      • The Highs and Lows of Auto-transformer Feeding on the British Railways.
      • The Hubble Space Telescope at 36 Years Old
      • The Industrial Heritage of the Cotswolds
      • The Map that changed the World
      • The Monster that wasn't - or was it?
      • The Origin of Taste
      • The Plague of Justinian and the End of Antiquity
      • The Poisons of Agatha Christie
      • The Power of Light
      • The Psychology of Disaster
      • The Role of Physical Activity in Ageing
      • The Role of Plant Roots in Preventing Soil Erosion
      • The Rosetta Mission, the Link Between Science and Technology
      • The Royal Agricultural University Herbarium: bringing ‘hidden’ natural heritage to life
      • The Science and Technology of Roman Wine and Olive Oil Production
      • The Science Behind Creating the Best Pint - the Role & Evolution of Yeast in Brewing
      • The Science behind Sustainable Packaging and Textiles
      • The secret life of your mobile phone: metal supply and digital devices
      • The UK's Atmospheric Research Aircraft
      • The Use of Hydrogen as a Low carbon Energy Vector
      • Thinking Better- the art of the Shortcut
      • Training for the Future - Re-opening the Cirencester to Kemble Railway
      • UCL Lunch hour Lectures
      • Ukrainian farmland: Long-term contamination by heavy metals from Russian bombs could have devastating impact on human health long after the war has ended
      • Using LIDAR to see through the trees
      • Virtual Fossils: Soft Bodied Sensations from the Silurian
      • Volcano Monitoring with Citizen Scientists
      • Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis in the news
      • Waiting for the Spring – Can Plants Contribute to Today’s Healthcare?
      • What is Geoarchaeology?
      • What is going on in Iceland?
      • Why does Rudolf have a Shiny Nose?
      • Why Measurement Matters and the Redefinition of Base SI units. The Wheeler Lecture
      • Work at NOC with using Autonomy to Explore the Ocean in a Changing Climate
    • Visit
      • 'The Hampton Car' talk
      • 3D Enterprise Centre at Chippenham College
      • A Proposal for a coach trip to The Farnborough Air Sciences Trust and its Wind tunnels
      • A417 Missing link - now fully subscribed!
      • BMW Mini Car Plant Oxford
      • Brooklands Circuit at Weybridge
      • Camden BRI
      • Cancelled - Rothamsted Research Centre, Harpenden, Herts
      • CANCELLED! - GLOUCESTERSHIRE ENERGY FROM WASTE SITE TOUR
      • Countryside Regeneration Trust (CRT), Bere Marsh Farm, Dorset
      • CSTS visit to Norbury Park Estate, BIFoR (Birmingham Institute of Forest Research) and FACE ( Free Air Carbon Enrichment facility) Staffordshire.
      • Defence Academy Lyneham
      • Exmouth Jurassic Coast
      • Flat Holm Island
      • Future Visits
      • Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility
      • Imperial War Museum
      • Ironbridge Gorge Museums
      • Kensington Museums
      • Morgan Car Factory, Malvern and Weston’s Cider Mill, Much Marcle
      • National Museum of Wales Collections Storage Centre, Nantgarw, Cardiff
      • National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton
      • National Physical Laboratories open day
      • National Physical Laboratory
      • National Physical Laboratory - Open Day
      • Newport Bridge and Cardiff Barrage
      • Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and the Royal Navy Submarine Museum
      • Renishaw
      • Renishaw Limited
      • Renishaw, New Mills, Wotton under Edge
      • Riversimple & Rheidol Power Station
      • RNLI COLLEGE AND ALL WEATHER LIFEBOAT CENTRE
      • Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts.
      • Royal Society Summer Exhibition
      • Royal Society Summer show
      • Royal Society to visit The Summer Exhibition of Science
      • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
      • Shuttleworth Collection
      • Staffordshire Potteries Visit
      • The Bank of England
      • The Mary Rose, Portsmouth Dockyard
      • The Met Office, Exeter
      • The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew
      • The Three Counties Medical School
      • UWE Research & Bloodhound Supersonic Car
      • Visit to Airbus A350 factory at Broughton
      • Visit to Lyon Observatory
      • Visit to Tactical Medical Wing RAF Brize Norton  
      • Visit to the Science and Innovation Park, Wroughton
      • Visit to: MORGAN MOTOR COMPANY
      • Wessex Water
      • Westmill Wind Farm
    • External Event
      • 2016 Oxfordshire Science Festival
      • Battlefields: the Story of Polio
      • Bledisloe Memorial Lecture
      • Free public lecture at the RAU - Water Wastewater Everywhere Every Drop Counts
      • Globalisation and Empire; an archaeology ~ 180th Lecture Series
      • LEGUMES
      • Monstrous Commotion Book Launch
      • Open Day at Harwell
      • Patron's Lunch
    • Members' Event
      • Autumn 2018 Newsletter
      • Members' Social Evening

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