Britain’s Science Paradox
…top of many rankings. In an age of abundant information, uncertainty – not ignorance – has become the defining public mood. This is the first survey since Covid-19 thrust scientists…
Climate Change: Why Should We Care? panel discussion
…that while COVID-19 has dominated the past year, climate change represents ‘a far bigger far and more enduring threat’. Who better to set out that threat for the audience than…
Cambridge Racing Eight: The 1934 Boat Race Winner
The annual boat race began in 1856, with men’s and women’s races both taking place from 1964, and the race only pausing for world wars and the COVID-19 pandemic. Around…
Modernist cheesecakes and DIY spectrometers: how universities helped students make their own labs
…– of teaching chemical sciences outside a managed university laboratory. As part of the Science Museum Group’s COVID-19 collecting project, we’ve collected two university chemistry departments’ responses to teaching their…
Art at the NCC: Adapting through the Pandemic
…and what kinds of research sessions or open days might take place. As the COVID-19 pandemic forced the UK into a national lockdown we pivoted to online working. Despite it…
International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Companies driving change
…the global COVID-19 response. It has never been clearer that the world needs science, and science needs women and girls. To mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science…
Building Back Sustainably
…Barnes Primary School and John Betts Primary School at the Science Museum © Science Museum Group With COVID-19 and the closure of our museums since March, the time has given…
We are back
…with science through regular online content; supported the national effort through donating PPE or chemicals from our Learning team; and of course our COVID-19 Collecting Project, which has already made…
Locked in, still out
…are taken into our post-Covid world so that we can increase access and inclusivity in the LGBTQ+ movement for everybody. FURTHER READING AND VIEWING Queer Intentions by Amelia Abraham Tales…
Tribes: A discussion with David Lammy
…of the poignant timing of this conversation, where the pressing issues of our time – including climate change, recession, the upcoming US election, Black Lives Matter and the COVID-19 pandemic…
Update from Ian Blatchford
…spread of COVID-19, we remain in the grip of a global crisis. Like the communities we serve, and so many other cultural organisations, the Science Museum Group has been hit…
Temporary closure
…thoughts are with all of those who have been affected by COVID-19. Our museums have a vital role to play in uplifting and inspiring the public and we look forward…