Science at AMNH

Museum Curator Brian Richmond and Boston University anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva explore the great advantages of walking on two legs, as well as the unfortunate consequences of evolving bipedalism from a body plan designed to walk on four, not two, legs.

This SciCafe took place at the Museum on April 1, 2015.

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

This SciCafe event is presented in collaboration with The Leakey Foundation.

In this SciCafe, Brett Benz, Paul Sweet, and Christopher Raxworthy talk about the discoveries they made in Papua New Guinea, as well as the adventures they had along the way. This SciCafe took place at the Museum on March 3, 2015.

The Museum’s Explore21 Initiative is supported by the leadership contributions of Katheryn P. and Thomas L. Kempner, Jr., and Linda R. and William E. Macaulay.

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

In this podcast, Alicia Soderberg reviews new results from Harvard's Supernova Forensics team that increase what we know about supernovas.

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

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

In this SciCafe, geneticist Chris Mason talks about his desire to get the gene sequence of every thing and place he sees, and the ways in which we can use the information we get from our bodies as well as our environments.

This SciCafe took place at the Museum on February 4, 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).

In this podcast, dive into the legacy of Darwin and his newly-digitized writings with Randal Keynes, Darwin’s great, great grandson, James Costa, a field biologist and historian of evolution from West Carolina University, and David Kohn, director of the Museum's Darwin Manuscripts Project.

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

To learn more about the Darwin Manuscripts Project, visit darwin.amnh.org.

Astrophysicist and scholar Martin Harwit addresses current challenges in astrophysics research in view of competing national priorities - and he proposes new approaches to the search for the true Universe.

This lecture took place at the Hayden Planetarium on December 8, 2014.

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

Former President Jimmy Carter and Museum Curator Mark Siddall join Dr. Jane Carlton, director of the Center for Genomics and Systems Biology at New York University, and Dr. Donald Hopkins, vice president of health programs at The Carter Center for a dynamic conversation about the science and politics of disease eradication.

Learn more about the eradication of diseases in the Museum exhibition Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease. http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/countdown-to-zero

This lecture took place at the Museum on January 12, 2015.

Countdown to Zero is presented by the American Museum of Natural History in collaboration with The Carter Center.

Countdown to Zero is proudly supported by Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Lions Clubs International Foundation, Mectizan Donation Program, and Vestergaard.

This exhibition is made possible by the generosity of the Arthur Ross Foundation.

Scientist and author Ainissa Ramirez explores the science behind football, touching on topics that range from how Vince Lombardi was a game theorist to why woodpeckers don't get concussions.

This SciCafe took place at the Museum on January 7, 2015.

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

Geologist and Museum curator Denton Ebel is joined by Amanda White, a con-focal microscopy specialist, and Ellen Crapster-Pregont, a doctoral candidate conducting her research at the Museum, in a discussion of the 2 and 3-dimensional analysis of these space rocks.

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

In this podcast, Dr. Meredith Nettles, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, discusses these peculiar earthquakes and shows how new data allows us to learn how the ice is affected by changing environments.

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

The Annual IRIS Lecture Series is presented in collaboration with the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology and the Seismological Society of America.