Science at AMNH

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.

Weather not only decides if you should wear a rain jacket - it shapes human lives. 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.

Bats are known for many remarkable qualities including mammalian powered flight and echolocation. Using CT-scanning technology, Museum scientists are taking a new look at bat skeletons to learn more about how they've evolved such interesting features. 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.

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

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.