Baroness Susan Greenfield, controversial Director of the Royal Institution, has been made redundant. The much-cherished venue for science communication, on Albemarle Street, Mayfair, reportedly made the decision as a cost-cutting measure. The Baroness is now pursuing an industrial tribunal on the grounds of sex discrimination. …
Chromos-home, sweet home. Plans for a new biomedical research facility near the British Library have been released. Shaped like a giant chromosome, the phrase ‘form follows function’ could scarcely be more appropriate. Four wings will house different research groups, with a central atrium designed to …
Caecillians, or ‘naked snakes’ don’t get a lot of press coverage. These shiny, slippery, wormy things have yet to feature on the otherwise comprehensive wildlife calendar that great aunt Londonist insists on buying us each Christmas. An upcoming event at the Zoological Society of London …
If a formula exists where the length of a queue is proportional to the hotness of the ticket, then last night’s Science Museum Late was the place to be. For the unarguably reasonable price of zero pence, hundreds of keen over-18s lined up in the …
We can vouch for fun games making us think creatively around green issues and learn something however much wine is consumed. With ghost trees in Trafalgar Square and pressure on politicians to take action at Copenhagen, we’re pleased that Future Blackout? is coming to the …
In the third of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits from the weird and wonderful collection of our Museum of the Month – the Grant Museum. Here we see the skeleton of a female quagga (Equus quagga quagga). This extinct form of zebra lived …
Kew Gardens is about to become the largest repository of fungi on the planet. From this morning, the botanical behemoth is taking delivery of a new fungal cache, swelling their holdings to some 1.25 million specimens, and representing up to 70,000 species. (We think: the …
Looks like our little puzzle last week got a few people scratching their heads. We asked if you could work out what all the elements in our Periodic Table of London (reprinted above) represent. Kudos to WHampstead and the Urban75 community, who pretty much cracked …
Ladies and Gentlemen, please keep your hands and feet inside the ride and remain seated until the lecture has come to a complete standstill, for a little piece of Japan’s Super-Kamiokande has landed in the Shunt Vaults to tantalise your senses in their final week. …
As if you needed another reason to go to the Wellcome Collection on Euston Road, here are 20 more. The Wellcome Image Awards, now in their tenth year, celebrate medical imagery. This years set of winners are particularly varied. Along side photos of a Nobel …
From today, visitors to the South Kensington museum have a whole new annexe to explore. The Darwin Centre Phase II is an architectural world away from Alfred Waterhouse’s beautiful Victorian original, which looms over Cromwell Road with its turrets, towers and terracotta animals. The new …
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