Making the ‘Perfect Body’
…and genetic makeup, along with trade-offs, side-effects and randomness too. ‘Alice’, said Roger Highfield. ‘You’ve always gone on about how badly the human body is designed when you get down…
The Mathematics of Everyday Life, with Sir Tim Gowers
…the mortality risk for two months at the age of 50. (L-R) Hannah Fry, Prof Alain Goriely, Roger Highfield and Sir Tim Gowers. He found that, in effect, a month’s…
Stephen Hawking Pictures Released
Post written by Roger Highfield The Science Museum has commissioned a series of photographic portraits of Professor Hawking to celebrate his 70th birthday at the end of this week. He…
Stephen Hawking Visits The Science Museum
By Alison Boyle and Roger Highfield There was a huge buzz of excitement in the Museum on Saturday afternoon when a crowd of visitors sang ‘happy birthday’ to the world’s…
The New David Hockney Animated Hawking Portrait
By Roger Highfield and Boris Jardine Imagine being able to see David Hockney create a new work, stroke by stroke, before your very eyes. Now imagine this work is a…
Why Will Smith Chose The Science Museum
By Roger Highfield Will Smith, Hollywood actor, producer and rapper, visited the Science Museum yesterday for a special charity premiere of Men in Black 3 for schoolchildren from diverse backgrounds….
The Rolex Awards
Guest post By Roger Highfield Director of External Affairs Want to find out who is going to change our world? The answer was given last night at a dinner held…
The Spirit Of Alan Turing
…life in the hope that they would be together once more? David Rooney is a Curator and Roger Highfield a Director at the Science Museum Group. Codebreaker: Alan Turing’s Life…
Government Chief Scientist Visits The Science Museum
By Roger Highfield The most influential scientist in the country came to the Science Museum last night to give a unique overview of how he has advised the Prime Minister…
Higgs Boson Discovered
By Roger Highfield The world’s most wanted subatomic particle, the Higgs, has been found, ending a quest that dates back decades. Thought to give all other particles their mass, the…
Mars Rover Curiosity Has Landed On The Red Planet
By Roger Highfield The one-ton Curiosity rover, suspended from the Sky Crane ‘rocket backpack’, touched down onto Mars first thing this morning to end a 36-week flight and begin a…
A Lifetime Of Work: The Lovelock Archive
By Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, Science Museum It’s an amazing image to conjure with: the 23-year old James Lovelock, our most famous independent scientist, cradling a baby in…