Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón discussed his space thriller Gravity in a recent event at the Museum.
Scientists have sent shock-waves through the scientific world with the announcement that they have detected gravitational waves.
Cosmologist Lisa Randall discusses everything from dark matter to the dinosaurs with Roger Highfield.
In his TED talk, Harry Cliff explores the big questions in physics and how scientists are trying to find answers.
Tis the season to be snowy… So the Families and Accessible Programmes Team is wrapping up the year with a host of fun-filled festive activities for the Christmas holidays.
To celebrate a century of Einstein’s famous theory, we explore the past, present and future of general relativity.
Dr Harry Cliff celebrates Back to the Future Day with a look at the physics of time travel.
The ideas that fuelled the birth of the space age dawned much longer ago than many realise. In their research for our Cosmonauts exhibition, Science Museum curators traced the origins of the first great leap into space by Yuri Gagarin in 1961 to events that took place well before the turn of the 20th century. Russian fascination with the cosmos first flickered into life in the 1880s with the appearance in print of the first translations of Western science fiction novels […]
Jane Desborough, Associate Curator of Science explores our collection of Robert Hooke microscopes as we celebrate 350 years since the publication of a truly remarkable book.
This week, Professor Stephen Hawking gave London’s Guest of Honour, Adaeze Uyanwah, a personal guided tour of the Science Museum. Describing the museum as one of his favourite places, the Cambridge University cosmologist told Adaeze “It helped fuel my fascination with physics and I have been coming here for decades.” The tour, which lasted more than an hour, is one of a series of magic moments for Adaeze, 24, from California, who beat off over 10,000 international entrants to win […]
150 years ago today (1 January), James Clerk Maxwell published his work on light, electricity and magnetism. Our resident physicist, Dr. Harry Cliff, reflects on how Maxwell helped transform the way we live.
Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn discusses his most famous work in conversation with the Director of the Science Museum.