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.
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.
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, describes an extraordinary meeting of minds that took place in the Science Museum.
The quest for artificial intelligence is gathering pace, with research groups worldwide in both universities and industry making huge advances in the development of sophisticated neural networks – inspired by the architecture of the brain – that may one day give computers the capacity for independent thought. Recent developments in machine learning and the proliferation of smart devices interconnected via a global high-speed network are already starting to enable far greater interaction between machines and information – what many call […]
With the museum’s Director of External Affairs, Roger Highfield, and Prof Ed Dougherty of Texas A&M, Peter Coveney of University College London has written a critique of the blind use of big data in biology. Here Prof Coveney sums up their paper. Visit the Our Lives in Data exhibition in the Science Museum’s Wellcome Wing and you will see a section on the revolution in genetics. Today it is cheaper than ever to read a person’s entire genetic code (genome), […]
Roger Highfield explores the impact of eclipses on science.
The vial of rust-coloured powder may not look like much but is a very special substance that can absorb and block magnetic fields. Sheldon Paquin explains more.
Pieter van Boheemen explores how antibiotics research is moving out of the lab and into the hands of the public.
Mysterious red circles have appeared on the skin of Olympic athletes at Rio 2016. Assistant Curator of Medicine Jack Mitchell explains more.
Roger Highfield reflects on a new TV series by Prof Brian Cox, Forces of Nature.
Natasha Little of the Royal Society of Biology discusses the work of DNA data pioneer, Sir Alec Jeffreys
Professor Danielle George blogs on starting a robotic revolution with a crowd-sourced robot orchestra.
Roger Highfield reflects on a Cheltenham Science Festival discussion about a new direction for the interactions between art and science directions