It's a small world
A series of films from a lecture at the Royal Institution by Nobel prizewinner Sir Paul Nurse, in which he describes four big ideas about life at the smallest scales
Paul Nurse on natural selection – video
British geneticist and cell biologist Paul Nurse outlines the theory of natural selection, or so-called 'survival of the fittest' – a phrase coined by Herbert Spencer
Gregor Mendel and the genesis of genetics – video
Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse tells the story of another great idea in biology – genes as the basis of heredity – in a lecture at the Royal Institution in London
Paul Nurse celebrates 'life's atom': the cell – video
In a lecture at the Royal Institution in London, the Nobel laureate describes the discovery of the basic building block of life
Sir Paul Nurse: Organisms are information networks
Nobel prizewinner Paul Nurse predicts that the complexity of life's networks will take us into a strange and counterintuitive world