Director of External Affairs, Roger Highfield, reports on the announcement of Tim Peake’s second mission to the ISS and our new virtual reality experience.
Roger Highfield is the Science Director at the Science Museum Group, a member of the UK's Medical Research Council and a visiting professor at the Dunn School, University of Oxford, and Department of Chemistry, UCL. He studied Chemistry at the University of Oxford and was the first person to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble. Roger was the Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph for two decades, and the Editor of New Scientist between 2008 and 2011. He has written or co-authored ten popular science books, most recently Stephen Hawking: Genius at Work, and has had thousands of articles published in newspapers and magazines.
Roger Highfield describes the launch of the Museum’s pioneering Mathematics gallery, designed by Dame Zaha Hadid.
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, explains how the Museum is advancing research with its Live Science programme for scientists.
Astrophysicist France A. Córdova is used to thinking about the future of scientific research in her role as the Director of the US National Science Foundation.
Walk through the ground floor of the Science Museum and you will pass by a little brass box which contains mould donated by Sir Alexander Fleming. Roger Highfield explains more.
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, describes an extraordinary meeting of minds that took place in the Science Museum.
Roger Highfield explores the impact of eclipses on science.
The Science Museum has helped inspire a new game about superbugs. Roger Highfield explains more.
Roger Highfield reflects on a new TV series by Prof Brian Cox, Forces of Nature.
Roger Highfield describes a milestone supercomputer simulation that provides a glimpse of the future of medicine.
At the 2016 Hay Festival, Director of External Affairs Roger Highfield interviewed the President of the Society, Nobelist Venki Ramakrishnan.
Daring, avant-garde and achingly cool, the first European Space Agency fashion show touched down in the Science Museum last night.