February 20th, 2012 | by Explainer Chi | explainers, inventions, launchpad drawings
Feb
20
It’s not just our younger visitors who love drawing their ideas down on paper whilst inside our Launchpad gallery – adults do too!
Read 'Visitor Inventions – Adult ideas' »February 6th, 2012 | by gemma | events
Feb
06
Behind the scenes at Beyond the Stars, an audiovisual journey through space fimed live at the Science Museum. Find out what really goes on behind the scenes of a live orchestral recording.
Read 'Behind the scenes of “Beyond the Stars”' »February 2nd, 2012 | by gemma | gaming, science news
Feb
02
Find out what robotic lobsters and genetically engineered bugs have in common in our new game Futurecade
Read 'Futurecade is here and wants you to play' »February 1st, 2012 | by gemma | inventions, writer in residence
Feb
01
Mark Champkins our Inventor in Residence talks about the inspiration behind the ‘black hole light’ he created for Stephen Hawking’s 70th birthday.
Read 'A ‘black hole light’ as a birthday gift to Prof Hawking' »January 27th, 2012 | by Susannah | launchpad drawings, space
Jan
27
Astronauts, rockets and multi-coloured stars – visitors to our Launchpad gallery seem to have space on the brain.
Read 'Space – as seen from our Launchpad gallery' »January 23rd, 2012 | by gemma | events
Jan
23
If you were setting out on a journey to space what would your soundtrack be? For one night only on Thursday 26 January the Science Museum will be exploring just that.
Read 'Go Beyond the Stars at the Science Museum' »January 19th, 2012 | by gemma | science news
Jan
19
As part of the Science Museum’s celebration of Stephen Hawking’s 70th birthday, leading contemporaries have paid tribute to his remarkable impact on the field of cosmology.
Read 'Leading contemporaries pay tribute to Stephen Hawking' »January 6th, 2012 | by Explainer Chi | events, families
Jan
06
Fancy watching Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton dressed up in sumo costumes to wrestle over who truly discovered gravity? Well that’s the kind of thing that happens in Science Museum Live – and the second season is starting in January 2012.
Read 'Science Museum Live on Tour' »January 5th, 2012 | by gemma | science news
Jan
05
We have commissioned a series of photographic portraits of Professor Hawking to celebrate his 70th birthday at the end of this week. He is best known for his work on time, black holes and the Big Bang. But in a New Scientist interview to celebrate his birthday, he admits he spent most of the day thinking about women. “They are,” he says “a complete mystery.”
Read 'Stephen Hawking pictures released' »December 30th, 2011 | by gemma | science news
Dec
30
We always knew our followers were a curious lot but now we have the stats to back it up! We started sharing Lunchtime Reading links on Twitter and Facebook back in June and here is a roundup of our the 10 most popular.
Read 'Lunchtime Reading 2011' »December 30th, 2011 | by Susannah | inventions, launchpad drawings
Dec
30
A pencil that does your homework for you, clouds that rain chocolate and a levitating chair – just a few of the ingenious inventions that have been dreamt up by visitors to our Launchpad gallery.
Read 'More visitor inventions' »December 28th, 2011 | by Explainer Chi | explainers
Dec
28
There’s a keyboard player and a drummer ready to play some uplifting tunes below a giant disco ball. No, I’m not talking about a 1970s inspired Glee episode. I am of course talking about our Garden interactive gallery!
Read 'The Garden Gallery (plus LEGO!)' »December 22nd, 2011 | by Explainer Chi | explainers
Dec
22
We love receiving letters from our visitors. In this letter, a girl called Molly asked us to track the adventures of ‘Flat Stanley’ for a school project.
Read 'Visitor Letters – Flat Stanley’s adventures at the Science Museum' »December 21st, 2011 | by Explainer Chi | explainers
Dec
21
Our Pattern Pod interactive gallery for kids aged 5 to 8 is all about patterns. Patterns that you can see, hear and touch.
Read 'The Pattern Pod Gallery' »December 16th, 2011 | by lottolab | events
Dec
16
A group of students aged 8 to 17 have spent the past three months working through the same set of tasks. It sounds like a recipe for disaster, but when you’re asking real, new science questions, no-one knows what the answer will be.
Read 'From students to scientists in just three months' »