A mathematical argument for forging friendships has been found
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, explains how the Museum is advancing research with its Live Science programme for scientists.
Collections Assistant Dominique Russell describes the process of cleaning and preparing the incredible Elliott 401 computer to go on display.
The vial of rust-coloured powder may not look like much but is a very special substance that can absorb and block magnetic fields. Sheldon Paquin explains more.
Discover more about our brand new free family workshop, Game On, celebrates 40 years of gaming.
How do you move an 800kg Facebook server into the Museum? Content Developer Sheldon Paquin explains more.
The second in our series of blog posts on big data explores machine learning and the quantified self movement.
Roger Highfield describes a milestone supercomputer simulation that provides a glimpse of the future of medicine.
Roger Highfield explores what to think about machines that think.
Our Ada Lovelace exhibition celebrates the bicentenary of Ada’s birth (10 December 1815) and opened on Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. When Ada Lovelace had her portrait painted in 1835, she joked that her jaw appeared so large that the word ‘Mathematics’ could be written upon it. Mathematics and science were Lovelace’s passions and were often at the forefront of her thoughts. She spent much of her time studying […]
Volunteer Chris Burton reflects on helping maintain and run Pegasus, one of the oldest computers in the world.
Baroness Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of Lastminute.com and chairs of the digital skills charity, Go ON UK, delivered the 2015 Richard Dimbleby Lecture from the Information Age gallery at the Science Museum.