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Exploding ping pong balls and a generous helping of fireworks are among the spectacles promised at this year’s Christmas Lectures at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½.

Intelligent construction machines which are more fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly are set to enter the market, thanks to pioneering software developed by WMG, at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½, and JCB.

Cancer cells can be targeted and destroyed with the metal from the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to new research by an international collaboration between the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and Sun Yat-Sen University in China.

A giant planet – the existence of which was previously thought extremely unlikely – has been discovered by an international collaboration of astronomers, with the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ taking a leading role.

Air quality in London is set to be better monitored, thanks to the launch of a new project between the Alan Turing Institute and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan – led by Dr Theo Damoulas of the ¹û¶³´«Ã½.

Details of the earliest known marine navigation tool, discovered in a shipwreck, have been revealed thanks to state-of-the-art scanning technology at WMG, ¹û¶³´«Ã½.