In 2016, the Research & Public History team embarked on the challenge of bringing old silent film technology to life through music. Megan Bradbury explains more.
With half the planet online, Sir Tim Berners-Lee marks web’s 30th birthday with a plea for global action to challenge its excesses.
Her Majesty The Queen visited the Science Museum to announce our new free summer exhibition, Top Secret: From Ciphers to Cyber Security, and open our new supporters centre.
To celebrate 150 years of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table, the Science Museum has unveiled a new display.
As a Dyson prize winning wind turbine goes on display in our Tomorrow’s World gallery, Margaret Campbell discovers how it could be used in built up cities and whether it could help lessen a city’s carbon footprint.
To celebrate International Wheelchair Day on the 1st March, Research Fellow Kay Nias explores the history behind what has arguably been the most important mobility device in history.
Go behind the scenes with our conservation team and discover what it takes to prepare to move 300,000 objects to their new home.
As Tim Peake’s Spacecraft lands at the Ulster Transport Museum in Belfast for the final leg of its tour, Assistant Curator Abbie MacKinnon gives us a taste of the food Tim Peake ate while on the International Space Station.
Assistant Curator Hattie Lloyd raises a glass to wine testing instruments in the collection.
In the run up to the opening of our Medicine Galleries later this year, Roger Highfield reports on an unlikely story of how a road rage attack provided the secret of scientific success, leading to a Nobel Prize.
As part of our season of events celebrating 150 years of the periodic table, we invited chemists from the University of Cambridge to display their work showcasing the chemistry of colour. Researcher Tom Parton shares more.
To celebrate the most romantic day of the year (and our hands-on gaming event Power UP) we look at five of the most iconic couples from the world of video games.