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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.

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.