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Remembering Stephen Hawking

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/in-memoriam-stephen-hawking/
By Roger Highfield

…attention of his peers in the late 1960s, working with Roger Penrose on how general relativity sometimes breaks down, resulting in something called a singularity. In the case of a…

Bob Edwards and IVF

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/bob-edwards-and-ivf/
By Martin Johnson

…5 July to mark the 40th birthday of in vitro fertilisation. Celebrate at a special Lates event in conversation with Louise Brown and Roger Gosden. Book your free ticket here…

IVF from the male perspective

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ivf-from-the-male-perspective/
By Gareth Down

…5 July to mark the 40th birthday of in vitro fertilisation. Celebrate at a special Lates event in conversation with Louise Brown and Roger Gosden. Book your free ticket here…

Stephen Hawking: an appreciation

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/stephen-hawking-an-appreciation/
By a guest author

…black holes. And, with Roger Penrose, he discovered a new mystery: that deep inside them, and in the big bang, there lurked ‘singularities’ – where conditions transcended all known physics….

Black Hole Revealed: Into the heart of darkness

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/black-hole-revealed-into-the-heart-of-darkness/
By Roger Highfield

…in the story of black holes. He first caught the attention of his peers in the late 1960s, working with Roger Penrose on how general relativity sometimes breaks down, resulting…

Apollo 11 Moon landing: the most difficult moments

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/apollo-11-moon-landing-the-most-difficult-moments/
By Roger Highfield

…thousand things to worry about.” Armstrong to Houston: “Give us a reading on the 1202 Program Alarm.” Charlie Duke, the CapCom [Capsule Communicator] for the lunar landing: “Roger. We got…

Light-based quantum computer takes minutes to do a 2.5-billion-year task

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/light-based-quantum-computer-takes-minutes-to-do-a-2-5-billion-year-task/
By Roger Highfield

…critics. The 2020 physics Nobel prize-winner, Sir Roger Penrose, told me recently that, though successful at some things, ‘current quantum mechanics is wrong.’ Quantum mechanics is wrong because it is…

The Science of the Multiverse

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/the-science-of-the-multiverse/
By Roger Highfield

…we measure the values we do because that’s where our universe lies on the landscape of possibilities. Portrait of Lord Martin Rees. Credit: Roger Harris Livio and Lord Rees conclude,…

The Science of Wormholes

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/the-science-of-wormholes/
By Roger Highfield

…3.0) But, says Milekhin, the troublesome singularity still remained along with a related problem – that is, according to research by the British Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose – which is…

The Magic of the Primes

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/the-magic-of-the-primes/
By Roger Highfield

…Tim Gowers, Roger Penrose and Andrew Wiles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyctvtlIKu8 In a follow up conversation with broadcaster and mathematician Hannah Fry, he described how he was a precocious child who regarded school…