Six leading planetary scientists debate whether Pluto is a planet in a broadcast of the Hayden Planetarium's 2009 Isaac Asimov lecture.

A look at Carole and Richard Rifkind's latest documentary film on life in a crystallography lab. Learn the science and meet the characters.

Columbia University neurologist Scott Small uses fMRI imaging on mice to research our aging brains. Turns out, you've got some control over how sharp you stay.

A multidisciplinary panel examine the psychobiology of human aggression and genocide at a recent roundtable at the Philoctetes Center.

When it comes to Olympic gold medal times, humans have been improving steadily over the past 100 years. But is there a limit to how good we can get? Learn about the technology, technique, and doping that keeps athletes improving.

Two taste gurus deconstruct our sense of taste in Science and the City's Science of the 5 Senses series -- from the molecules that give us flavor to the mystery of the fifth taste.

Meet the first 5 students at the new graduate school at the American Museum of Natural History -- the first museum in America awarding PhDs.

The American Museum of Natural History becomes the first Museum in the US to offer a Ph.D. in Comparative Biology.

Learn what it is like for these students to go to school in a museum.

A Nobel Laureate delves into what we know about our cells - from their 4.5 billion year history, to modern-day mutations, and protein zip codes (cellular love letters).

Explore the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology's extraordinary collection of eggs and nests with two scientists from the foundation and the photographer for their new book, Egg and Nest.

There's a lot more to vision than first meets the eye. An ex-magician and cognitive neuroscientist team and tackle the science of sight in Science and the City's Science of the 5 Senses series.