Champagne corks have been popping at CERN today, with news that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has glimpsed the elusive Higgs boson, or at least something that looks very like it. We’re hoping that one or two of the champagne bottles will find their way into the Science Museum’s collections. Bottles of bubbly might seem a rather strange addition to a museum physics collection, but they’re one way for us to capture news like this morning’s for posterity: ironically, sometimes […]
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Higgs boson discovered! Roger Highfield reports on the press conference in our latest blog post.
This week saw the second gathering of Google’s Luvvies and Boffins at the Science Museum.
Find out more in our guest blog post from Peter Barron, Director of External Relations at Google
The most influential scientist in the country came to the Science Museum last night.
Find out what he had to say in our guest blog post from Roger Highfield
Want to find out who is going to change our world? The answer was given last night at a dinner held in the Science Museum.
Guest post by Roger Highfield
Today the Science Museum are publishing a report on the legacy of the BBC Micro.
Will Smith Hollywood actor, producer and rapper, visited the Science Museum yesterday!
Professors Stephen Hawking and Rolf-Dieter Heuer have been made Fellows of the Science Museum, the highest accolade that the Museum can bestow upon an individual.
From today an animated portrait of Stephen Hawking by David Hockney will be on display to the public as part of the Science Museum’s Stephen Hawking: A 70th birthday celebration display.
Last week, a new computer was launched, and within seconds, not only sold out, but also crashed the website! The Raspberry Pi is a British designed device, roughly the size of a credit card and costing a miniscule £22. It has been designed to inspire a new generation of schoolchildren to learn about programming.
There was a huge buzz of excitement in the Museum on Saturday afternoon when a crowd of visitors sang ‘happy birthday’ to the world’s best known scientist, Professor Stephen Hawking.
Find out what robotic lobsters and genetically engineered bugs have in common in our new game Futurecade