Got my copy on pre-order!

In memoriam...

We're excited to reveal the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist, celebrating the finest historical non-fiction works from the past year.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors! 👏📚

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...

Sad to hear about the passing of Jane Goodall, I had the absolute joy of seeing her speak recently at a Science Museum event and without notes or hesitation she was sharp, funny, every story perfectly formed, in a way I struggle to be now let alone at 91! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Congratulations! 💀

Had a beautiful day at @sipwiltshire.bsky.social today visiting the brilliant teams who look after our collections in storage, you would not know that it is October tomorrow - it was almost t-shirt weather!

Alien, 1979. (Directed by Ridley Scott)

Nature is healing

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

News | Science Museum launches Space gallery – new permanent exhibition is part of a wider project to rework the ground floor of the London museum

The team have done a fantastic job with our new Space Gallery, the objects look gorgeous - these photos almost don't do them justice! - and some great stories woven throughout. We are now the only museum in the world where you can see an Apollo command module alongside a Soyuz module.🚀

Delighted to finally reveal the new SPACE gallery at London's @sciencemuseum.org.uk!
It was a pleasure to help - providing what may well be the largest photo of the🌖on🌎!
The gallery is stunning, and it's so special to see the Apollo 10 Command Module alongside Soyuz.

The team have done a fantastic job with our new Space Gallery, the objects look gorgeous - these photos almost don't do them justice! - and some great stories woven throughout. We are now the only museum in the world where you can see an Apollo command module alongside a Soyuz module.🚀

I'm told @beketaten.bsky.social was singing it on the way to work just this week

For #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay, we present our freeze drier, which we use to dry wet wood.

Yes, we literally 'Shiver our Timbers'!

See the full video - youtu.be/JMqpYOfc0v4

The @sciencemuseum.org.uk is opening a space gallery later this week. To celebrate, I filmed why Hawking kept a beach ball on his desk: I blow up the universe, then show how it captured the faint fingerprints of quantum jitters that seeded cosmic structure! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYud...

Yes, but *apart* from being hot, kind, intelligent, talented, hot, charming, generous, hot, iconic, sweet, funny, hot, hot and hot, what on earth did Robert Redford have going for him?

😁🐴

Yes indeed, opening next Saturday!

respectfully, I think every single person in the country could stand to reflect on this

Are those tentacles on the rings? So, calamari rings?!

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns