Science at AMNH

Join astrophysicist and educator Jeffrey Bennett as he introduces the basic tenets of Einstein's theory and underscores its importance to our modern understanding of the universe.

This lecture took place at the Museum on September 21, 2015.

Support for Hayden Planetarium Programs is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Endowment Fund.

Primatologist and ethologist Frans de Waal explores the similarities between humans and other primates in power politics, transmission of knowledge and habits, empathy, and sense of fairness.

This lecture took place at the Museum on May 21, 2015.

This lecture was presented jointly with ThinkingAnimals.Org

Join Christopher Tully as he discusses a new experiment called PTOLEMY (Princeton Tritium Observatory for Light, Early-Universe, Massive-Neutrino Yield) and its potential to challenge predictions and properties of neutrinos.

This lecture took place at the Hayden Planetarium on June 8, 2015.

Support for Hayden Planetarium Programs is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Endowment Fund.

Join geneticist Tuuli Lappalainen from the New York Genome Center to understand how genetic variants shape how our genes are expressed, and how her lab is seeking to uncover the “rules” of human variation.

This SciCafe took place at the Museum on June 3, 2015

The SciCafe series is proudly sponsored by Judy and Josh Weston.

Kepler mission scientist Natalie Batalha describes the endeavor’s latest discoveries and the possibilities for finding inhabited environments in the not-so-distant future.

This lecture took place at the Hayden Planetarium on May 11, 2015.

Support for Hayden Planetarium Programs is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Endowment Fund.

In this podcast, Curator emeritus Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution, and leads us through a world of discoveries in the field from past to present.

This lecture took place at the Museum on June 9, 2015.

To listen to our archive of podcasts, visit amnh.org/podcasts.

Curator Peter Whiteley explores the life of Colonel Louis Cook, the highest-ranking African-American officer and Native American officer in the Revolutionary War, who deserves a more prominent place in American history.

This lecture took place at the Museum on April 14, 2015.

Mandë Holford, a Research Associate at the Museum and Associate Professor of Chemical Biology at Hunter College, discusses her research into relatively unknown predatory marine snails, such as cone snails, the toxins they produce in their venom, and how those toxins are being used in the search for new medicines for pain and cancer.

This SciCafe took place at the Museum on May 6, 2015.

The SciCafe Series is proudly sponsored by Judy and Josh Weston.

This project is supported by the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) Program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Shep Doeleman, scientist and Assistant Director of the Haystack Observatory at MIT, explores the evidence for black holes, and describes an effort to link radio dishes around the world to form an Earth-sized virtual telescope that will make the first images of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

This lecture took place at the Hayden Planetarium on April 13, 2015.

Support for Hayden Planetarium Programs is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Endowment Fund.

Listen in on a discussion between a panel of experts, including Heidi Hammel, Executive Vice President of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy; Tess Russo, a hydrologist at Pennsylvania State University; Ellen Stofan, planetary geologist and Chief Scientist of NASA; Kathryn Sullivan, a geologist at NOAA; and Charles Wald, a retired general from the U.S. Air Force. Host and moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, leads this lively conversation on the past, present, and future of water.

The 2015 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate took place at the Museum on April 28, 2015.