Fun (and tasty) British Science Week experiments.
Roger Highfield explores the impact of eclipses on science.
Roger Highfield reflects on a new TV series by Prof Brian Cox, Forces of Nature.
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.