Research

With this year being the International Year of the Periodic Table, it’s an exciting time to be a chemist.

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.

Dr. Heather Kappes from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) investigates how and why we spend our money the way we do, as part of a Live Science residency at the Science Museum.

As our exhibition ‘IVF: 6 Million Babies Later’ closes we explore the news that the first genome edited babies have been born.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have achieved the first ever flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft which has no moving parts.

University of Cambridge research fellow, Marta Shahbazi, discusses developments in IVF research making it possible to grow human embryos in vitro for longer than ever.

This week, the kilogram will be redefined. But what does this mean for scientists and engineers, and for those of us beyond the science lab? Dr Jane Desborough, Curator of Scientific Instruments, explains more.

Guest author Chris Warrick discusses the developments in Nuclear Fusion research, and how we’re closer to creating clean energy than ever before thanks to devices called tokamaks.

Dr Lily FitzGibbon from the Motivation Science Lab, University of Reading, investigates how we can understand curiosity, as part of a Live Science residency at the Science Museum.

As the museum prepares to explore climate change in Antarctica through dance next month, Roger Highfield reports on the latest insights from game theorists.

Connie Orbach, curator of new exhibition IVF: 6 Million Babies Later, explores the pioneering work of Jean Purdy, a central figure in the development of IVF.

Today we celebrated the launch of our new exhibition IVF: 6 Million Babies Later.