This week, the kilogram will be redefined. But what does this mean for scientists and engineers, and for those of us beyond the science lab? Dr Jane Desborough, Curator of Scientific Instruments, explains more.
After a hugely successful tour of the UK alongside the Soyuz TMA-19M, Tim Peake’s Sokol spacesuit is set to land at the National Space Centre in Leicester next summer.
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, discusses Venki Ramakrishnan’s critically-acclaimed book, Gene Machine: the Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome.
On the centenary of the end of the Great War, photographer Judit Gyula uncovers a remarkable gramophone from the Western Front.
Guest author Chris Warrick discusses the developments in Nuclear Fusion research, and how we’re closer to creating clean energy than ever before thanks to devices called tokamaks.
Lead curator of our recent exhibition The Sun: Living With Our Star, Dr Harry Cliff, marks the first perihelion of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe – its record-breaking approach to the Sun.
The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, Helen Sharman, goes back on display in our Exploring Space Gallery.
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs introduces the Oxford Mathematics public lecture.
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, visited the museum to announce that the new £50 note will celebrate the UK’s contribution to science.
In 1918, as the First World War ended and peace celebrations began, a new enemy emerged – the Spanish flu.
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, announces the winners of the Medical Research Council’s annual Max Perutz Science Writing Award.
Director and Academy-Award winning visual effects designer, Paul Franklin, talks about his fascination with Kubrick’s sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey and the joys of watching an ‘unrestored’ print.