Science at AMNH

Join Estefanía Rodríguez, associate curator in the Museum's division of Invertebrate Zoology, for an exciting underwater journey to meet sea anemones, and learn about how much more there is still to be discovered about these marine marvels.

This lecture took place at the Museum on January 6, 2016.

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

Paleontologist Diego Pol, part of the team that discovered a new Titanosaur in 2014, joins Macauley Curator of Paleontology Mark Norell and Provost of Science Mike Novacek for a chat about the stupendous sauropod and its scientific significance.

This lecture took place on January 15, 2016.

Generous support for The Titanosaur exhibit has been provided by the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Foundation.

Photo: AMNH/D. Finnin

In this SciCafe, geneticist Jack Gilbert presents the most exciting and recent discoveries from the invisible world of microbes.

SciCafe: Microbes in the House, The Secret World Inside You, and related activities are generously supported by the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Generous support for The Secret World Inside You and its educational resources has been provided by the Paul and Irma Milstein Foundation and the Milstein Family.

The Secret World Inside You is proudly supported by the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.

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

Join Dr. Thorne Lay, professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as he discusses how analysis of earthquakes forced researchers to revise longstanding ideas about the behavior of the Earth beneath our feet.

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

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

In this podcast, George Musser, author of a new book about the ability of one particle to affect another across space ("spooky action at a distance") sets out to explore the phenomenon.

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

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

Join Bridget Nugent, a researcher from the University of Pennsylvania, to learn about how sex differences are created in the brain.

This SciCafe took place at the Museum on November 4, 2015.

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

In this lecture, author Lauren Redniss considers the danger and beauty of weather, how it informs our history and religions, and the forces that drive meteorological events. 

This lecture took place at the Museum on October 29, 2015.

According to aerospace engineer Louis Friedman, Mars may be the only destination beyond the moon to see human footprints. In this lecture, join Friedman as he discusses his provocative vision for the future of space travel, one in which exploration beyond Mars may cease to be physical, and instead, be virtual.

This lecture took place at the Museum on October 19, 2015.

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

In this SciCafe, curator Nancy Simmons and postdoctoral fellow Abigail Curtis, from the Museum's Department of Mammalogy, take an exciting journey inside the world (and bodies!) of bats.

This SciCafe took place at the Museum on October 7, 2015. To watch the accompanying video for this SciCafe, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfjERb0CNC0

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

In this podcast, Museum curator of anthropology Laurel Kendall navigates the journey that Korean shaman paintings make from painters' studios to shrines to private collections and museums, and traverses the borderland between scholarly interest in the material dimensions of religious practice and the circulation of art.

This lecture took place at the Museum on September 24, 2015.

Photo © AMNH/D. Finnin