Scientists

Miranda Lowe makes it onto BBC's Woman's Hour Power List 2020.

Who is looking after the collections while the Museum is in lockdown?

You can't protect what you don't know. 

A year after the devastating blaze in Rio de Janeiro, hope lives on.

A usually inaccessible dinosaur will be available to researchers around the world.

Dr Susie Maidment shares what it's like to be a dinosaur researcher, how she got into this career and advice for budding palaeontologists.

 LGBTQ+ staff share their stories in their own words.

Meet eighteenth-century naturalist and collector Sir Joseph Banks.

Get to know the Museum scientists working on the latest dinosaur discoveries.

Much of the ocean remains unexplored, but scientists at the Museum are helping unravel the mysteries of the world beneath the waves.

The face of modern science is young, black, female and ambitious.

They include new dinosaurs, an ancient wombat and a giant shark.

When Patrick started caring for the Museum's fish specimens, he became one of the institution's first black curators.

Though visitors can spot his namesake on the iconic gilded ceiling of the Museum's Hintze Hall, few will have heard of Graman Kwasimukambe.

Meteorite impacts may have been key to life on Earth.

Discover the story behind the latest images to come from a Japanese sample return asteroid mission.

The new centre will allow scientists to collaborate more closely and share pioneering research.

Dr Katherine James combines her love of biology and computing to interpret complex genetic data.

Brachiopod curator Zoë Hughes celebrates the life and work of one of the Museum's great pioneering geologists.

Virtual reality is providing unprecedented access to the Museum's most precious specimens.

Women working with Museum collections share what they love about their jobs, and their advice for budding curators.

Female researchers are helping to answer some of the biggest questions about life on Earth. 

Hear from researcher Dr Anne Jungblut as she explores the abundance of life in the glaciers of South Georgia.

Brimming with enthusiasm for the natural world, even Charles Darwin didn't always get it right.

A massive survey of life in the freezing seas around Antarctica has shown that they harbour many more animals than previously thought.

TV presenter, author and academic Alice Roberts shares memories of the Museum and how it influenced her fascination with human evolution.

An intrepid explorer and brilliant naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace co-published the theory of evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin.

What is it like to stand on the ocean floor? What do you learn from a lifetime spent in the heart of the sea? 

Darwin’s first scientific theory wasn’t about evolution, but how coral reefs form around the world.