1 November 2023
How and why did we evolve from languageless apes to languaging humans? How did our ancestors become language-ready, and what triggered the dawn of language? Join Sverker Johansson as he reveals the first speakers, what they talked about and...
1 November 2023
The 2022 Big Thinkers series from New Scientist events features eight online talks streamed throughout 2022, covering a wide range of topics all brought to you by world-class scientist speakers and experts. If you are curious about your brain, your body,...
1 November 2023
The Big Bang theory tells the story of the beginning of the Universe, our cosmic home for the last 13.8 billion years. But how does the story end? Join astrophysicist Katie Mack as she shares what modern astrophysics tells us about the ultimate fate...
1 November 2023
Your brain is the most complex organ in your body. It produces every thought, action, memory, feeling and experience of the world. But how does it work? At this day-long event, six expert speakers will guide you on a tour of the most fascinating object...
1 November 2023
Hear from the best-loved names in science, including Helen Czerski, Eugenia Cheng, Christopher Jackson and Adam Rutherford alongside up-and-coming researchers who are tackling some of humanity’s greatest challenges at our festival of ideas and...
1 November 2023
Compared to the rest of our primate relatives, humans have a uniquely long childhood. From picking a mate to having a baby – and raising it to make more babies – what are the evolutionary pressures that made us this way? When did we choose...
1 November 2023
What makes us human? From language to love, this event series will take a deep dive into the origins of all the things that make us, us. Save 25% off the standard ticket price by purchasing a series ticket to all four live online Being Human lectures...
1 November 2023
In this talk, leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Tony Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, using them to build a picture of how the universe works. He will demonstrate how...
1 November 2023
In the beginning was the big bang: an unimaginably hot explosion almost 14 billion years ago from which all the matter in the Universe emerged. The physical theory of the hot nascent universe—the big bang—was one of the most consequential...
1 November 2023
Sean Carroll will explain the equations that revolutionised physics, leading to the theory of relativity and the prediction of black holes. ‘Where, when and how?’ are some of the most fundamental questions we can ask, and knowledge of space,...
