To celebrate International Wheelchair Day on the 1st March, Research Fellow Kay Nias explores the history behind what has arguably been the most important mobility device in history.
As Tim Peake’s Spacecraft lands at the Ulster Transport Museum in Belfast for the final leg of its tour, Assistant Curator Abbie MacKinnon gives us a taste of the food Tim Peake ate while on the International Space Station.
We spend much of our lives sitting on chairs, which got curator Lisa Kennedy thinking about different chair designs in the collection.
Launching in 2020, we explore an exciting new collaboration set to reimagine the future of museum experiences.
250 years ago, on 5 January 1769, one of the UK’s most significant patents was granted. Curator Ben Russell takes up the story.
As we announce the return of Power UP, our hands-on video games extravaganza back by popular demand in 2019, we take a look back at some of the key turning points in gaming history.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have achieved the first ever flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft which has no moving parts.
Evidence that drug testing could one day be conducted in a computer rather than on animals has led to a team at the University of Oxford winning a major international prize.
80 years after it was first introduced, Chemistry Curator Sophie Waring, looks at how nylon has become a ubiquitous material in our lives today
Contemporary Science Volunteer Thea Waxman explores Bloop, a simple, low-cost medical development used to recycle patients’ blood.
Dr. Sebastian Weidt explores a new TW live event at the Science Museum.
Curator Doug Millard explores why the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket was so significant for space exploration.