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Photo Doron Swade is a world-renowned Babbage Expert and is also the curator of computing at the London Science Museum. Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
[12 May 2008]
Photo The Grand Challenge is a science and technology competition set up by the Ministry of Defence to address military challenges faced by the UK armed forces. The challenge is to create a system with a high degree of autonomy that can detect, identify...
[06 May 2008]
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London.
[01 May 2008]
Photo Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial functions.
[29 Apr 2008]
Photo Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial functions.
[10 Apr 2008]
Photo You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. But rather than 50-tonne behemoths dealing death with a massive light cannon, the El-E robot is instead using lasers to think like a...
[10 Apr 2008]
Photo The Listening Post at the Science Museum in London captures snapshots of fractured conversation from thousands of public chatrooms and bulletin boards. Hannah Redler, head of arts projects at the Science Museum, said in a statement: "It is an awe...
[07 Apr 2008]
Photo Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like the stuff of science fiction films - but they are actually new defence technologies destined for the battlefield. The Future Soldier event at London's National Army Museum...
[26 Mar 2008]
Photo One objective of the Morph project, says Tapani Ryhanen, head of the Nokia Research Center Cambridge UK lab, is its "combination of art and science will showcase the potential of nanoscience to a wider audience".
[26 Feb 2008]
Photo Fashion buyers at the Science Museum registered their interest in work by up-and-coming designer Emilio de la Morena simply by touching their Nokia 6131 NFC mobile phone to posters of his clothing, as seen here.
[11 Feb 2008]
Photo The device is featured in this week's issue of the journal Science. Researchers from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia have developed a device worn much like a knee brace that generates electricity from the natural motion of walking.
[11 Feb 2008]
Photo Photo credit: Google Earth, Nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute silicon.com talked to Graham Linehan, writer and director of tech-flavoured sitcom The IT Crowd this October, to ask him about his inspiration for the show's characters.
[13 Dec 2007]
Photo One of the competitors, Team Lux showed off their car in London's Science Museum earlier this year. Photo credit: Google Earth, Nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute Natasha Lomas went down to Apple's flagship store on Regent Street in London...
[29 Nov 2007]
Photo Photo credit: Google Earth, Nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute Photo credit: Google Earth, Nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute Photo credit: Google Earth, Nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute
[28 Nov 2007]
Photo Research published in the journal Science used matchbox-sized robots to put roaches to the test. Hmm, no snacks here. But that's OK - this roach is looking for company, not food. And as it turns out, cockroaches may be more inclined to follow the...
[20 Nov 2007]
Photo The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has showcased how sonar operators are trained to hunt enemy submarines. This image shows a web mash-up called 'Find Me Some Wifi', which takes worldwide wi-fi hotspot data and plots area where you can...
[31 Aug 2007]
Photo The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has showcased how top sonar operators are trained to find enemy submarines. The Advanced Acoustic Analysis Course (AAAC) - commonly referred to as the "A" course - takes experienced sonar...
[22 Aug 2007]
Photo LHC's super-grid will use and support national and regional grid networks around the world - such as the GridPP project in the UK and a European project called Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe (Egee).
[21 May 2007]
Photo This display shows the information used by a driverless car on show at London's Science Museum. Above, a traveller on his way to the airport accesses the wi-fi now available on all Heathrow Express trains running to and from Paddington.
[27 Apr 2007]
Photo Driverless cars may seem like science fiction but they're already a reality. Team-Lux from Hamburg showed off the car it intends to enter in the 2007 Grand Challenge at the Science Museum in London this week.
[13 Apr 2007]
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