Hello all, apologies for the lack of posting lately- we have been all over the place in the last few weeks, with Talk Science courses in Edinburgh, Portsmouth, and Belfast; several courses and teacher events in London; MuseumNext conference in Barcelona (an awful place to have to visit, as you can well imagine) - and tomorrow we leave for ECSITE [...]
Psychics, psychologists and even friends attempt to read our minds; navigating what we do and how we say it to predict our actions. German-born Franz Joseph Gall took this one step further by suggesting an individual’s actions and disposition could be seen by literally examining the physical construction of their head. Sound like a wild [...]
Meet Pregnant Man. We recently made a film that we hope will get people thinking (and that you might consider using in the classroom!). First off, let me start by saying that this is not currently possible, and a genetic male of the human species has not yet managed to become pregnant! Thomas Beatie, the [...]
Hello all, welcome back after your holidays! (or are you still off, lucky you?) Did any of you see the TES, the Times Educational Supplement, last Friday? If you did, then you might have spotted an announcement that has thrilled our little boots off! The Science Museum has become content partners with TES. This means that [...]
Do the simplest questions drive the greatest thinking? Here, Mythbusters’ Adam Savage gives a really cool, inspiring TED talk exploring this very idea. One of the most important scientific ideas that you can communicate to your students is that science is never a ‘done deal’, more fantastic innovations and incredible technology are endlessly possible. Science is [...]
We’ve all seen those celebrities who’ve been household names for decades, who appear to be comfortable in their non- size-zero bodies. Then, lo and behold, one day, they appear with new sleek, svelte figures. How do they do it? Simple: a bit of prosthetic surgery and hey presto, goodbye spare tyre! I am of course, talking [...]
‘Cause the power you’re supplying, is electrifying… Have you ever looked out the window in the wee hours of the night and seen street lights glowing and absolutely nobody in the street benefitting from them? These days we hear a lot about our energy consumption and the size of our carbon footprints pretty much everywhere [...]
Any of you out there using Twitter? What about to follow education or science tweets? Here’s a just few great accounts for you to follow… @sciencemuseum to find out whats going on in the Museum, new events, competitions, thoughts, friendly chat @lottolab the Science Museum’s resident lab, open neuroscience research going on within our very [...]
Browse any medical forum post from someone seeking advice on Magnetic resonance imaging (or MRI scanning as is commonly abbreviated) and you will notice their queries often highlight feelings of apprehension, uncertainty and fear, despite the relative safety of the apparatus involved in such testing. Using MRI allows doctors to get highly refined visuals of [...]
March 5th is a particularly good day for science… On this day were born several scientists whose discoveries have made their way into our everyday life in some way. Edouard Joseph Louis-Marie van Beneden studied the number of chromosomes in body cells, working out that half of them come from the male sperm and half [...]
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