Assistant Curator Abbie MacKinnon gives us a taste of the food Tim Peake ate on the International Space Station.
Assistant Curator Hattie Lloyd raises a glass to wine testing instruments in the collection.
In the run up to the opening of our Medicine Galleries later this year, Roger Highfield reports on an unlikely story of how a road rage attack provided the secret of scientific success, leading to a Nobel Prize.
As part of our season of events celebrating 150 years of the periodic table, we invited chemists from the University of Cambridge to display their work showcasing the chemistry of colour. Researcher Tom Parton shares more.
A panel chaired by Jarvis Cocker discussed the advancing technology in music and where artificial intelligence might lead us. Chris Bell explores more.
As part of our recent exhibition The Last Tsar: Blood and Revolution, rare disease expert, Dr Matthew Lumley, explains how the future is much brighter for people living with haemophilia today.
To celebrate Chinese New Year, curator Donata Miller takes a closer look at a Chinese incense clock from our collection.
A ceremony in which two lions were ‘woken up’ when their eyes were dotted by His Excellency Ambassador Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese Ambassador to the UK, and Sir Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science Museum Group, marked the start of a new era in cooperation between the Group and China.
Now 2018 has come to an end, Aran Shaunak celebrates the Science Museum Group’s contribution to the Year of Engineering.
We spend much of our lives sitting on chairs, which got curator Lisa Kennedy thinking about different chair designs in the collection.
As the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements launches, we take a look at the story behind the scientific icon.
As the Science Museum prepares to open its £24m Medicine Galleries, Roger Highfield reports on a remarkable new insight into why everyone is different.