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A panel of authors and journalists come together to discuss the disturbing re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences.Nationalism is on the rise and it’s perhaps no coincidence that dangerously divisive race science has seen a re-emergence in recent times. British science journalist Angela Saini’s 'Superior: The Return of Race Scie…
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Astronomer Royal Martin Rees joins astrophysicist and legendary Queen guitarist and songwriter Dr Brian May to discuss the past, present and future of space travel.In a conversation moderated by the Science Museum’s Roger Highfield, Martin Rees and Brian May will explore the significance of the Moon landing, the progress in spaceflight since 1969, …
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Hear from a panel of running experts, including five-time Team GB Olympian Jo Pavey MBE and top running coach Dr Martin Yelling, discussing what it takes to run 26.2 miles, what separates the best from the rest and what it takes to turn yourself into a long-distance runner. This is a live recording of Science and Running, which took place at the Sc…
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How might artificial intelligence, machine learning and neural interface technology change the way we hear, experience and feel music?Rough Trade Books and the Science Museum present an exploration of the future of technology for music and its fans, centring around newly published book 'Ecstatic Data Sets' by Late of the Pier. Joining us to explore…
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The Science Museum has assembled a panel comprised of the most influential figures in F1 racing, including expert engineers and sports science specialists, to reveal the secrets behind enabling the likes of Lewis Hamilton to clock speeds upwards of 200mph in their pursuit of Grand Prix glory.How is it that F1 cars can withstand the rigour and incre…
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Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, discusses Venki Ramakrishnan’s critically-acclaimed book, Gene Machine: the Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome.To mark the publication of his book Gene Machine Roger Highfield, talked to Venki Ramakrishnan of the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology, LMB, and President o…
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Professor Hawking recorded these inspiring words before he died. This audio was broadcast as part of the launch of Professor Stephen Hawking's final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions. Find out more via https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/stephen-hawking-on-how-to-shape-the-future-of-humanity/sciencemuseum által
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The co-authors of Professor Hawking's final research paper, Professor Malcolm Perry from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge and Professor Andrew Strominger from Harvard University together with Professor Fay Dowker – a one-time student of Professor Hawking and now Professor of Theoretical Ph…
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Lucy and Tim Hawking speaking at the launch of Stephen Hawking's final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, which was held at the Science Museum on Monday 15 October 2018.More information is available via https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/stephen-hawking-on-how-to-shape-the-future-of-humanity/sciencemuseum által
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Internationally acclaimed singer, pianist and songwriter Joe Stilgoe, invites you to help him explore what science can reveal about the mood of music with the help of Philip Ball, science writer, polymath and musician. This recording will see Joe turn your suggestions into sounds that can both move us and help Phil reveal the secrets of our musical…
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We are honoured that Louise Brown, the first person to be born through IVF, celebrated her 40th birthday at the Science Museum. She was joined by Roger Gosden, a former doctoral student of IVF pioneer Robert Edwards and expert in female infertility, for a one-off in-conversation event in our IMAX Theatre, chaired by Science Museum Director of Exter…
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Celebrate International Women in Engineering Day and the Year of Engineering 2018 with a special event in connection with Marvel's record-breaking blockbuster film, Black Panther.Set in the mysterious African Republic of Wakanda, the film introduces a new Marvel character—engineering whizz Shuri, aka Princess of Wakanda, who leads the development o…
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The Science Museum are delighted to partner with the Royal Society, whose President Sir Venki Ramakrishnan joins British mathematician Eugenia Cheng, author of Beyond Infinity: An expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics, to discuss the brilliance of Ramanujan and the importance of his work to modern mathematics. This panel discussion is chair…
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Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest challenges the world faces today. Left unchecked it could return modern medicine to the dark ages. India, having some of the highest antimicrobial resistance rates in the world, is the focal point for an action plan in developing countries, known as the “Chennai Declaration” and in some ways is leading…
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Human reproduction is entering a new era. Join Prof Sir Doug Turnbull, Dr Marta Shahbazi, Dr Norah Fogarty and Dr Roger Highfield to uncover how far science has progressed – from the very first test tube baby in Oldham, to creating GM babies and even artificial embryos. Find out how ‘three-parent babies’ could eliminate serious genetic diseases and…
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Recorded at the Science Museum on 27 September 2017 One day your doctor will be able to recreate you in a computer so that a virtual version of you can be used to try out treatments, like a crash test dummy, guinea pig and trial volunteer all rolled into one. Your digital doppelgänger could breathe, blister and bleed. It could be dissected, probed …
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The authors of three critically acclaimed books on the post-truth era met in public for the first time to discuss what the ‘war on truth’ means for science. With Fiona Fox, Director of the Science Media Centre, they discussed the implications of ‘fake news’ on climate change policy, government legislation and on research in areas from reproductive …
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In preparation for an upcoming exhibition on contemporary agriculture, we invited industry leaders and experts to one of the world’s most sustainable buildings, The Crystal, to discuss the challenges of sustainable food production and the potential solutions science and technology are bringing to the table.Mike Barry, Director of Sustainable Busine…
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NASA Administrator, Major General Charles Bolden delivers a special presentation to school students about his experiences leading NASA's space program, his space expeditions, and his goal in interesting students in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, also known as STEM.…
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In recent decades, an art movement has emerged that illuminates the latest advances in science. The Science Museum’s Roger Highfield joins science historian Arthur I. Miller, author of Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art, artist Paul Prudence and conceptual designer Mike Phillips to explore the new avant-garde.…
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Recorded at the Science Museum, This illustrated lecture from Sir Christopher Frayling explores the birth of 'Frankenstein', the book's legacy and the ways in which the original has been distorted over time – a two hundred year journey in the company of re-animators, automata, robots and replicants.This is followed by a round table discussion with …
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Listen as Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón discusses his sci-fi thriller Gravity with the journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed.The talk is the latest in a series of events around Cosmonauts, the most significant exhibition of Soviet and Russian space artefacts ever staged outside Russia, and will celebrate the stories of heroism found in sp…
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Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, is one of the pioneers of space exploration.He was a member of the original twenty selected for the first cosmonaut squad in 1960. In 1965 he carried out the first ever walk in space from the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. Ten years later he shook hands in orbit with astronaut Tom Stafford during the …
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Hosted by Media Space at the Science Museum and organised in collaboration with the University of Westminster, this recording of the Fiction and Photography Symposium looks at issues around the use of fiction in photography. Listen to speakers David Bate, Mia Fineman, Lucy Soutter, Christina de Middel, Peter Kennard and Federica Chiocchetti explore…
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To mark the opening of the new Information Age gallery, the Science Museum played host to a panel event, featuring some of the world's leading thinkers and entrepreneurs sharing their insights and predictions about the big events that have shaped the communication technology we are familiar with today.…
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The broadcast of the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 was watched by millions of viewers across Britain. These memories, captured over 60 years later, recall how it felt to witness a privileged historical event on the television for the first time. Discover the story behind these memories and more in our new Information Age gallery, which opens 2…
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Particle Fever director Mark Levinson and star Monica Dunford were joined by journalist and broadcaster Alok Jha for a pre-screening Q&A about physics and film making.Particle Fever follows the stories of six scientists and engineers involved in the world's greatest experiment, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. This special screening was part of t…
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In the last of our three, free audiobook extracts, Tony White reads from his novel Shackleton’s Man Goes South, first published in 2013 by the Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD. Download the FREE ebook from the Science Museum website - www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/shackletonsman until 24 July 2013, or from the Atmosphere Gallery display u…
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Tony White reads from his novel Shackleton’s Man Goes South, first published in 2013 by the Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD. Download the FREE ebook from the Science Museum website - www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/shackletonsman until 24 July 2013, or from the Atmosphere Gallery display until April 2014.Shackleton’s Man Goes South is the …
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Tony White reads from his novel Shackleton’s Man Goes South, first published in 2013 by the Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD. Download the ebook on 24th April from the Science Museum website - http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ClimateChanging/Events/shackletons_man.aspx Shackleton’s Man Goes South is the Science Museum’s Atmosphere Gal…
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First podcast of the Oramics to Electronica Podcast Series. In this interview Dennis Kelles-Krause, the Science Museum conservator who cleaned and restored the Oramics Machine, describes what it was like to work with the machine and what discoveries were made during the cleaning process.sciencemuseum által
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Head over to the Science Museum's blog to get in touch with electronic music's roots and learn how to make a tape loop! Here are some example loops we made using little more than some stationery, a few old cassettes and a stuffed cat!http://sciencemuseumdiscovery.com/blogs/insight/make-your-own-tape-loop/…
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Head over to the Science Museum's blog to get in touch with electronic music's roots and learn how to make a tape loop! Here are some example loops we made using little more than some stationery, a few old cassettes and a stuffed cat!http://sciencemuseumdiscovery.com/blogs/insight/make-your-own-tape-loop/…
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