Discover the story behind one of the latest developments in space exploration: the AstroRad Radiation Shield.
Explore the work of our contemporary science team who run the Tomorrow’s World Gallery. In partnership with the BBC the gallery inspires visitors with the latest scientific inventions and explores the impact they could have on our future.
The Science Museum Group is delighted to announce that it will be lending Robert Stephenson’s Rocket, one of Britain’s most famous feats of engineering, to the Great Exhibition of the North 2018.
Help scientists explore the mystery of sleep.
Dr.Allan Ponniah is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He has been involved in the latest Live Science experiment at the Science Museum – ‘Are your facial expressions unique?’ – run in collaboration with researchers from Imperial College London. Below he explores how the data gathered at Live Science could improve the lives of autistic children and people undergoing reconstructive surgery amongst many others. The human face is an incredible part of our bodies. It plays […]
Roger Highfield introduces this year’s European Inventor Award finalists.
More than 10,000 people gathered outside the Science Museum on Saturday to join a global celebration of science.
A mathematical argument for forging friendships has been found
Churchill and the possibility of extra-terrestrial life.
Pip Moss, Content Manager for Antenna, explains one of the latest developments in space exploration, the LightSail.
Curator Doug Millard explores the story of the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft ahead of it going on display in the UK in 2017.
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, explains how the Museum is advancing research with its Live Science programme for scientists.
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.