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Museum gets funding to promote the web
News The Wolfson Foundation is allying with the government to fund exhibits about the internet at the National Media Museum. The museum, based in Bradford, will receive £150k for the project — just part of the £4m that culture minister Margaret Hodge...
[August 27, 2008, 17:16]
Early Internet switch becomes museum piece
News The London Internet Exchange (LINX) marked its 10th anniversary on Monday night by giving the UK's Science Museum one of its first switches. It may look like just a beige box today, but in 200 years it will be seen as a very significant item," said...
[November 30, 2004, 9:10]
X-ray named top scientific invention
Blog The X-ray machine has been voted the most important scientific invention in a poll by the Science Museum. Katie Maggs, associate curator of medicine at the Science Museum said in a statement on Wednesday that the X-ray machine displayed in the...
[November 4, 2009, 16:23]
Photos: Recycling the mobile mountain
News An exhibition has opened at London's Science Museum looking at the issue of mobile phone recycling. Dead Ringers, which is based in the museum's Antenna science and technology news gallery, investigates how the European Waste Electrical and...
[April 4, 2006, 12:20]
Music stars tempt teen girls into technology
News A nationwide initiative called ITbeat, supported by the Department of Trade and Industry, e-skills UK, IBM, the Science Museum, British Phonographic Industry and music industry stars, has been set up to convince girls that working in IT is "cool".
[November 7, 2002, 14:36]
Science Museum recognises gaming
News Nintendo will sponsor three Science Museum displays in a deal worth £1m, the games giant announced on Wednesday. The Dana Centre, a Science Museum venue that hosts events and debates concerned with contemporary science, technology and culture, will...
[January 26, 2006, 13:10]
Intel contributes to millennium museum
News According to Sean Maloney, corporate vice president of Intel, donations of this kind are an important contribution to educating the next generation about technology, and he regards the Science Museum as a unique vehicle for getting this message...
[October 28, 1998, 16:23]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The WiMax bit is a point to point link, like any other point to point link, that puts the Science Museum's warehouse on Intel's bandwidth via the Swindon offices a few kilometres away. There is a live demo of a Skype link to an insanely...
[April 15, 2005, 19:30]
Middleware: Computing's unsung hero
News Dr Tilly Blyth, curator of computing and information at the Science Museum says that while the museum has displayed digital art and technology before, this is the first time it has installed an exhibit purely about software.
[February 1, 2005, 16:20]
Steorn's free energy seems curiously expensive
Talkback I think I saw a pendulum in the Science Museum that used that energy. Could this divice be tapping into the rotational energy of the earth? Then the laws of physics would remain intact.
[September 21, 2006, 18:41]
Bletchley Park
Talkback It seems the Science Museum dont want to know. I recently called to deposit some computers in the museum. The leases for the Museum and "Bletchley Park" are different . There is a vast amount of equipment awaiting examination.
[May 20, 2008, 9:43]
3D-XplorMath
Downloads You should think of 3D-XplorMath as an interactive museum of beautiful mathematical artifacts. This museum contains literally hundreds of well-known (and some not so well-known) mathematical objects, arranged logically into a number of "galleries...
[August 6, 2003, 8:00]
Wallace and Gromit say patents are fun kids!
Blog Actually - you could view this new link-up between the Science Museum and the UK Patent Office as a harmless bit of fun to get kids interested in science and building stuff - except some of the language is a bit too Ministry of Truth for my liking.
[February 16, 2009, 9:03]
When geekery meets millinery
News Prior to inflation, it's supposed to be a kind of straight-fitting dress," Eng explained during a phone interview from New York, where she currently works as a freelance designer and is busy preparing for Seamless: Computational Couture, a 1...
[January 26, 2006, 15:30]
Scientists' plea for Bletchley Park
News Now, the 97 senior scientists have added their voices to the chorus building up, asking that "Bletchley Park be provided with the same financial stability as some of our other great museums such as the Imperial War Museum, the Science Museum and...
[July 24, 2008, 15:04]
Portals in space
News And VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) graphics aren't the only suggestion of a back-to-the future strategy: Firmage's plan for a next-generation World Wide Web combines the power of affinity portals, the Mozilla browser, Web directories...
[July 29, 2003, 17:45]
Thursday
Blog The event takes place in San Jose's TheTech, a science museum dedicated to innovation. Called "Science On A Roll", it's around 30 feet tall and 20 wide and consists of a bunch of pool balls ricocheting around an enormous adventure playground of...
[February 19, 2003, 16:51]
A musical trip to Bletchley Park - 1
Blog After the recording, I and producer Monise Durrani (who's fresh from producing a series on Islam and Science, involving a trip to Pakistan which probably generated enough risk assessment forms to rebuild the Library of Alexandria) took the train...
[March 8, 2009, 18:20]
The Schmoozer: Last Straw for the evil hacker underground
News The scene: the Science Museum, with its bizarre new exhibit, "Cybercrime", supposed to expose the "underground world of hacking" featuring an "in-depth look at hacker culture" that reveals "the people behind the stereotypes".
[April 20, 2001, 15:45]
Nokia shows off nanotech handset
News Morph, as the device is called, was launched on Monday at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of an exhibition entitled "Design and the Elastic Mind". According to Dr Tapani Ryhanen, Nokia's lead at the NRC Cambridge UK laboratory, Morph's...
[February 25, 2008, 14:59]
