The museum’s Roger Highfield challenged Professor Alice Roberts to iron out the scars of human evolution for a new display. Here, the University of Birmingham anatomist describes her personal quest for perfection.
To celebrate 51 years since Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was first released, we look at five ways The Beatles influenced the world of science.
Professor Martin Johnson explores the difficulties experienced by physiologist and Nobel laureate Bob Edwards in his pioneering IVF work.
Content Developer, Kyle Osbrink, explores the history and science behind an iconic summer fashion accessory.
Ahead of the final week of the Wounded exhibition, Associate Curator of Chemistry Rupert Cole looks at poison gas in the First World War.
A new spacecraft has landed at the Science Museum: the Structural Thermal Model of BepiColombo, developed to test the strength of the spacecraft when on its mission to Mercury. Here are some interesting facts you might not know about this challenging mission…
By Amrita Pal
Scientists meet the Media party: ‘important we tell stories about science’s boundless frontier’
Nobel prize-winners, authors and editors aplenty attended the annual Scientists meet the Media party in the Royal Society last night, 26 years since the very first gathering.
Space weather could wreak havoc on Earth, yet few of us are taking the threat seriously.
Assistant curator, Rupert Cole, explores the life and work of celebrated crystallographer, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin.
Exploring the future of machines at the Director’s Annual Dinner.
We explore alien bacteria, the most likely alien life form we are to find, and how their existence could impact the scientific community.
To celebrate 65 years since the discovery of the structure of DNA, Jim Watson visited the Science Museum to discuss this milestone in modern science.