Sir Roger Penrose’s Mathematical Art of the Cyclic Cosmos
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs introduces the Oxford Mathematics public lecture.
What does ‘race science’ look like in the 21st century?
Roger Highfield, Science Director, reports on a recent discussion of the toxic fiction that is ‘race science’.
Bringing the periodic table to life at the Science Museum
Science Director Roger Highfield recaps the wonders of the International Year of the Periodic Table.
See Our Universe Through a New Lens: Science Photographer of the Year
Bookings open today for a free exhibition to showcase the Royal Photographic Society’s first Science Photographer of the Year competition, says judge and Science Director Roger Highfield.
Happy 100th birthday, James Lovelock!
As we celebrate James Lovelock’s 100th birthday, Roger Highfield reflects on his scientific achievements.
Apollo 11 Moon landing: the most difficult moments
As part of our Summer of Space, Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to Buzz Aldrin about the tense moments before the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969.
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov’s race to be the first man on the Moon
What if the Soviet hammer and sickle had been the first flag on the Moon, rather than the Stars and Stripes? As the Science Museum celebrates the Apollo 11 landing in its Summer of Space, Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who trained to be the first to walk on the Moon.
Fabiola Gianotti, Director General of CERN: on the usefulness of useless knowledge
Roger Highfield, Science Director, reflects on the Director’s Annual Dinner 2019.
European Inventor Award 2019 – vote for your favourite inventor
Roger Highfield, Science Director at the Science Museum Group and judge of the European Inventor Award introduces this year’s finalists and explains how to vote for your favourite.
Rise of the Quantum Compass
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, glimpses the future of navigation.
Total immersion, creativity and the world’s best selling drug
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.
How Humans Evolve
As the Science Museum prepares to open its £24m Medicine Galleries, Roger Highfield reports on a remarkable new insight into why everyone is different.