Global March for Science
…marches were hosted across the UK, including in Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff and Edinburgh. A blog outlining the importance of science was written by author and Science Museum executive, Roger Highfield….
European Inventor Award – vote for your favourite invention
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, Science Museum Group and judge of the European Inventor Award introduces this year’s finalists. https://youtu.be/qzOjEmzK6eg The finalists for one of the world’s most prestigious…
Stellar Director’s Dinner Ponders Cosmic Mysteries
…in the Museum this autumn. Michael Frayn, Roger Highfield, Professor Lisa Randall, Sir Paul Nurse, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, Claire Tomalin The Museum receives more educational visitors that any other museum…
The Universal Laws of Pretty Much Everything
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, describes the pioneering research of Geoffrey West, who will discuss his latest book, Scale, in the Wonderlab Show Space, 19.30-20.00, during Lates on 31…
Nullius in verba: Science in the post-truth era
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, discusses an upcoming event in the Science Museum – Science and the post-truth era – with guests Fiona Fox, Matthew d’Ancona, James Ball and…
How to build a Virtual Human
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, discusses a special event from the upcoming September Lates on 27 September that will explore how to build a virtual human, in partnership with…
Take part in the world’s first AI test of human intelligence
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs explores a new online intelligence test with an AI twist. So many key questions about intelligence remain unanswered that it seems that the human…
Illuminating India: starring the oldest recorded origins of ‘zero’, the Bakhshali manuscript
…built the mathematical edifice I now stand on top of.’ Written by Roger Highfield and Matt Kimberley, curator of Illuminating India: 5000 Years of Science and Innovation. A folio from…
Maths and the birth of the Virtual Human
…Computational Biomedicine. L-R: Prof. Marco Viceconti, Prof. Alfons Hoekstra, Roger Highfield, Prof. Peter Coveney, Prof. Blanca Rodriguez Just as a weather forecast relies on a mathematical model of the Earth’s…
Superbugs at the Science Museum
…earlier by Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, before he introduced her at a special session on superbugs he curated at a Wired Live event in Tobacco Dock. Dame Sally…
Reproduction 2.0 – three parent babies to gene editing and artificial embryos
…leading edge of research, in a field that continues to challenge ethical and legal boundaries. Dr Marta Shahbazi, Dr Norah Fogarty, Professor Sir Doug Turnbull and Roger Highfield in Tape,…
Sir Andrew Wiles on the struggle & beauty of mathematics
…museum, which revealed the first written record of zero, a highly-influential number, dates back four centuries further than most scholars had thought. L-R: Dame Mary Archer, Roger Highfield, Sir Andrew…