Roger Highfield, Science Director, describes a study that highlights the challenges the aviation industry faces to cut its impact on the climate.
The Moon could be used to store a backup copy of frozen cells from most Earth species to protect global diversity. Roger Highfield, Science Director, discusses this radical proposal to preserve biodiversity in the event of global catastrophe.
As part of the Science Museum Group’s commitment to building a more diverse and representative workforce we partnered with the 10000 Interns Foundation to introduce a Summer Internship scheme in 2023. Now in its second year, this programme has already had a huge impact across our museums.
As Paris gets ready for the 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony, we take a closer look at collection objects focusing on the flaming star of the show: the Olympic torch.
With just seconds remaining in the last 16 match between England and Slovakia at the European Championships, Jude Bellingham arched the ball back over his head and into the goal.
65 years ago today, on 11 June 1959, the Saunders-Roe Nautical 1 (SR-N1) hovercraft was flown in public for the first time on the Isle of Wight. This has been described as the world’s first hovercraft and at the time was seen as a key step towards a new technology that would alter transportation of the future.
Marina Rees, Collections Project Officer, looks through the flotsam and jetsam of the collection to chart how scientists have tried to understand and measure the movements of the ocean.
Assistant Curator Sabrina Ruffino Giummara takes a closer look at ancient coins in the collection and how they can provide unique insights into the past.
The keynote speaker at the Science Museum Group’s 2024 Annual Dinner, Brazilian science writer and communicator Natalia Pasternak, reflects on museums, science and critical thinking.
For a fourth year, the Science Museum Group is bringing together science and poetry to mark National Poetry Day (3 October 2024).
For an event in the IMAX last night, Roger Highfield discussed how much we trust computers with Professor Paul Brenner, a US veteran who works at the Center for Research Computing, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
There were spikes in global temperatures last year that pose disquieting questions about whether we’re underestimating the changes faced by the planet. Roger Highfield, Science Director, reports.