Explore the life and work of civil engineer John Smeaton
The medical legacy of the Passchendaele offensive
Unexpected objects in the Science Museum Group collection related to Arthur Conan Doyle.
Roger Highfield introduces this year’s European Inventor Award finalists.
New acquisition: 3D printed models used in kidney transplant.
Curator Selina Hurley looks at the machine that will be performing the procedure at Guardian Live: Robot Surgery.
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, explains how the Museum is advancing research with its Live Science programme for scientists.
In the first episode of The Crown, a new Netflix drama series looking at the life of HM Queen Elizabeth II, showed the George VI’s lung operation carried out by surgeon Sir Clement Price Thomas (1893-1973) on a Sunday morning, 23 September 1951. The news made headlines all over the world. For The Crown, a group of practicing surgeons and theatre staff from Guys and St Thomas’ Trust came together to re-enact the operation in what is thought to be a […]
Walk through the ground floor of the Science Museum and you will pass by a little brass box which contains mould donated by Sir Alexander Fleming. Roger Highfield explains more.
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, describes an extraordinary meeting of minds that took place in the Science Museum.
It may look like a humble glass jar, but this embryo incubator was used in the creation of the world’s first ‘test-tube babies’.
Two hundred and fifty years after his birth, Stephanie Millard celebrates the life of John Dalton who laid the foundations of modern atomic theory.