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Unboxing CERN
Content Developer Rupert Cole on unboxing objects from CERN for Collider, a new Science Museum exhibition opening in November 2013. There are not many things that would persuade me to wait for a van in...
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Celebrate the Nobel Prize at the Science Museum
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum, celebrates the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics ahead of the opening of our Collider exhibition next month. Congratulations to...
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Could the Higgs be the end of particle physics? We’re still a long way from answering one of the biggest questions of all, says Dr Harry Cliff, Head of Content on our Collider exhibition. The 2013...
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3D printing – an explosion of creativity!
Suzy Antoniw, Content Developer in the Contemporary Science Team, looks at the creation of a new exhibition on 3D printing. What can make impossible shapes solidly real and create unique, one-off...
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LHC: Lifting Heavy Contraptions
Curator Ali Boyle on how the Collider team are installing some of the larger objects in our new exhibition. It’s just three weeks to go until Collider opens with a flurry of exciting events. Which...
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LHC: Lip Hair Champions
Content Developer Rupert Cole explores some famous moustaches in particle physics ahead of the opening of our new Collider exhibition on 13th November. It’s that time again: Movember – the eminently...
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Visitor Letters – Spaldwick School
We love receiving letters from our visitors and we always try our best to write back as soon as possible. Recently pupils from Spaldwick School visited the Launchpad gallery and saw the Feel the Force...
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Collider: Celebrating with Higgs and Hawking
This week we were joined by two of the world’s most eminent scientists, Stephen Hawking and Peter Higgs, to celebrate the opening of our Collider exhibition. Peter Higgs and Stephen Hawking in the...
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Science Museum stars in UK-Russia Year of Culture
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, reveals a remarkable new exhibition opening in 2014. A landmark exhibition of the Russian vision and technological ingenuity that launched the space age...
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From Frog Pistols to Freud – the Making of the Mind Maps Exhibition
Journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed goes behind the scenes of our new exhibition, Mind Maps: Stories from Psychology, which opens to the public this week. It looks like a kind of over-engineered...
View ArticleJJ Thomson’s Cathode-ray tube
Rupert Cole celebrates JJ Thomson’s birthday with a look at one of the star objects in our Collider exhibition. Holding the delicate glass cathode-ray tube in my hands, once used by the great physicist...
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Tis the season to 3D print your Christmas
Press Officer Laura Singleton explores some festive 3D printing. Christmas can be one of the most stressful times of the year – with presents to wrap, trees to be put up and cards to be written....
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Alan Turing granted Royal pardon
A posthumous pardon has been granted to the great mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and philosopher, reports Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs Alan Turing, the wartime codebreaker who...
View ArticleMax and Tangle’s guide to particle physics
To celebrate our Collider exhibition, we worked with the BAFTA award-winning Brothers McLeod to bring particle physics to life in this short animation. Myles and Greg McLeod had a pretty tough brief to...
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3D printing gadgets on wheels
Martyn Harris, cyclist and entrepreneur, looks at how 3D printing inspired him to launch a new business. See more examples of 3D Printing in our 3D: Printing the future exhibition. My two lifelong...
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Peter Higgs: The Life Scientific
Quantum physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili blogs on interviewing Peter Higgs for the new series of The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4. Discover more about the LHC, particle physics and the search...
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Information Age: Testing, testing, 1 2 3
Jack Gelsthorpe and Lauren Souter are both Audience Researchers working on the new Information Age gallery. Here they discuss some of the work they do in prototyping digital media for the exhibition....
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Happy 25th Birthday World Wide Web!
Tilly Blyth, Lead Curator for Information Age, reflects on how the World Wide Web came into existence. It was 25 years ago today that the World Wide Web was born. Only a quarter of a century ago, but...
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World must adapt to climate change, says IPCC
By Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs The world is ill prepared for an unknown climate future and must adapt to meet the challenges, according to a report issued today by the...
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Designing Collider
We sat down with Pippa Nissen from Nissen Richards Studio to talk about her team’s work on our Collider exhibition. Left to right: Pippa Nissen, Simon Rochowski and Ashley Fridd from Nissen Richards...
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