Astronomers have announced that they can now track sunspots forming before the tell-tale dark spots reach the Sun’s surface. The spots are caused by magnetic activity inside the Sun, and are associated with solar storms, massive bursts of material coming from our star. NASA recently released these staggering observations of our little blue planet being swamped by a sunstorm. Better prediction of solar storms is vital to protect our communication, navigation and power systems. In 1859 the biggest solar storm on record zapped […]
Exciting details about some of the games you can play at our live gaming festival PLAYER from 28 September to the 2 October.
Corn flour slime, a cloud in a bucket and exploding hydrogen balloons – find out what our outreach team got up to at the Lollibop festival.
Our 1980s operating theatre came back to life this morning, as we brought back together a surgical team from London’s Westminster Hospital to carry out three operations in the way they would have been performed in 1983. The idea is to capture how operations were performed in the past when surgery was very different from how it is today.
Meet our new Inventor in Residence – Mark Champkins. Find out what inspired him to become an inventor, the greatest invention ever and what objects in the Museum influence him the most.
To stop the big kiddies frightening the little ones we have different Key Stage days during term-time inside our Launchpad gallery. Despite the age difference, some things never change…
Chemistry was the key to this month’s Lates – the chemistry of bath products, warfare, alcohol and even luuurve…
The Oramics Machine is being installed in the gallery today in preparation for tomorrow’s big opening…
Last week we welcomed a group of space pioneers into the Museum to try out our new space trail. Find out what they thought
Here at the Science Museum we like to play games and we’re interested in how we can make the experience of visiting the Museum a bit more playful on a day to day basis.
Artworks, made from meteorites that landed on Earth 6,000 years ago, are on show in the Science Museum until 30 October 2011
Our curator Doug Millard tells us about the time he journeyed from SW7 London to Houston Texas to collect a piece of the Moon.