Today, we’re inviting you to decide on the greatest British innovation of the last hundred years – from crystallography to quantum dots – and the innovation most likely to shape our future.
Meet the staff members that make the Museum so unique and get the insider scoop on upcoming exhibitions, research projects and new objects.
Viridity, a team of young engineers from Newstead Wood School, are taking part in our High Performance festival this weekend. This guest blog post has been written by the Viridity team.
As Britain lurches from flood to drought, experts from Government, industry, academia and consumer bodies gathered at the Science Museum to discuss that most fundamental ingredient of life: water.
Fancy meeting Sir Isaac Newton (not the real one obviously) this half-term? Our drama characters bring science to life!
Former and current Science Ministers gathered at the Science Museum, in from of a who’s who of the British scientific establishment, to discuss the latest science policy thinking
Scientists from across the UK (and zombie rights protesters) will gather in the Science Museum this weekend for ZombieLab. Worried members of the public are invited to study zombies and the science of consciousness as society searches for answers (and evades the zombie horde).
Billionaire computer entrepreneur and philanthropist, Bill Gates, is to discuss the impact of polio on humanity at this evening’s annual BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture. His speech, which will be broadcast from the historic Royal Institution, will be supported with the visual aid of an iron lung from the Science Museum’s collection.
We’re welcoming in the New Year with a look at just a few of the exciting things happening at the Museum in 2013.
So whether it’s Zombies, art or the Large Hadron Collider that interests you, there’s something for everyone in the Museum this year.
Our Inventor in Residence, Mark Champkins, on inventing the future of Christmas. “I started to wonder where my Christmas tree had come from? Could it ever be replaced? I then struck upon the idea of the Bio-Bauble..”
On 7 December 1972, Apollo 17 blasted into orbit. It would be the final mission of the Apollo space programme.
This tree-like structure that symbolises the growth of engineering has been chosen as the trophy for a new global prize. The Queen Elizabeth Prize is considered to be the Nobel prize for engineering and yesterday the winner of the trophy competition was announced by Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science Museum Group.
Boffins, crazy ideas and blue sky research might not sound like the building blocks of an industrial policy. However, one of the most seasoned figures in modern politics argued this week that science is not just a cultural activity but plays a central role in driving the nation’s economy. Lord Heseltine, the former deputy Prime Minister, delivered this message to a 300-strong audience attending the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CASE) Annual Lecture.