Time travel through wormholes

21 November 2012 by Keith Moore

This is getting ridiculous; I must stop writing about insects, it’s my third blog post in a row. One of…

The ghost of a flea

18 October 2012 by Keith Moore

Robert Hooke’s flea plate from Micrographia (1665) is one of the most reproduced and representative images of science at the…

Shutterbugs

25 September 2012 by Keith Moore

The Society has very rich image collections and recently I’ve been recording all manner of material that will end up…

Newton’s apple tree

22 February 2012 by Keith Moore

As we prepare for the launch of the Society’s new picture database there’s plenty to do in scanning and cataloguing…

Remembering (and forgetting) ‘women in science’

19 July 2011 by Guest bloggers

Guest post by James Poskett  It’s 1904. In one hand, Pierre Curie is holding aloft a small piece of radium….