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FIRST IVF BABY LOUISE BROWN CELEBRATES 40TH AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM

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By Roger Highfield

…conversation with Roger Highfield. John Webster described the sense of anxiety among the team as mum-to-be Lesley Brown was wheeled into operating theatre. The stakes were high, and tension was…

Voyaging into the grey zone of consciousness

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By Science Museum

…Museum last night. During a Royal Society sponsored Lates, Adrian Owen discussed his attempts to use brain scanners to communicate with vegetative patients over two decades with Roger Highfield, Director…

Felix Baumgartner Drops Into Science Museum

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By Will Dave

…up to 834 mph as part of the Red Bull Stratos project. [yframe url=’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHtvDA0W34I’] Today Felix visited the Science Museum where he told the museum’s Roger Highfield how, with only…

The Information Wins Science Book Prize

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By Roger Highfield

By Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum Group. The bestselling author, James Gleick, has won the world’s most prestigious science book prize with his revelatory chronicle…

Codebreaker Wins Great Exhibition Award

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By Roger Highfield

By Roger Highfield The Science Museum’s critically-acclaimed exhibition about Alan Turing, the mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and philosopher, has been awarded a prestigious prize by the British Society for the History…

Impossible Trees Grow In The Science Museum

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By Roger Highfield

My evening with the entrepreneurial Lily Cole, by Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs A little copse of ‘giving trees’ will once again sprout in the entrance to the museum’s…

In Conversation With James Lovelock

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/in-conversation-with-james-lovelock/
By Science Museum

…himself (listen below to the full conversation), as he joined Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, to discuss his career and his new book, A Rough Ride to the Future…

Chancellor's 'Northern Powerhouse' Vision Unveiled In Manchester

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/chancellors-northern-powerhouse-vision-unveiled-at-the-museum-of-science-and-industry-manchester/
By Roger Highfield

…announcing plans for the new HS3, a high speed rail link between Manchester and Leeds. Image credit: Roger Highfield His speech, to around 50 key individuals from the region, among…

Galvanising speech at Director’s Dinner

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/galvanising-speech-amid-glamour-of-directors-dinner/
By Peter Dickinson

…SMG Director of External Affairs Roger Highfield with Kate Bush, SMG Head of Photography and Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Director, National Portrait Gallery © Science Museum The MC of the event…

On Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs

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By Roger Highfield

…tiny perch here on Earth’. Leading cosmologist Lisa Randall, who contributed to the Museum’s Einstein’s Legacy exhibit, with Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs. Credit: Science Museum. We know dark…

Alfonso Cuarón on the making of Gravity

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/alfonso-cuaron-on-the-making-of-gravity/
By Roger Highfield

…void. From left to right: Director of External Affairs Roger Highfield, broadcaster Samira Ahmed, Alfonso Cuarón and Science Museum Director Ian Blatchford. But relying on a single lead character ‘proved…

Glittering Director’s Dinner Witnesses the Future of Medicine

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/glittering-directors-dinner-witnesses-the-future-of-medicine/
By Alex Tyrrell

…technology, engineering, and mathematics – is enabling us to explore our collections in new ways.“ Director of External Affairs, Roger Highfield, SMG Chairman Dame Mary Archer and Director Ian Blatchford…