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Science at AMNH

Current science and the latest research from scientists at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History and guest speakers.

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Lonesome George and the Galapagos Today

Lonesome George and the Galapagos Today

In honor of the Museum’s special exhibition of Lonesome George, the famed Galapagos tortoise that was the last of his sp... Read more

2 Oct 2014

1hr 24mins

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Frontiers Lecture: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

Frontiers Lecture: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

Renowned theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser and cognitive scientist Stephen Pinker discuss the limits of knowledge an... Read more

4 Dec 2014

1hr 9mins

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SciCafe: Seeing Inside Bats with Nancy Simmons and Abigail Curtis

SciCafe: Seeing Inside Bats with Nancy Simmons and Abigail Curtis

In this SciCafe, curator Nancy Simmons and postdoctoral fellow Abigail Curtis, from the Museum's Department of Mammalogy... Read more

29 Oct 2015

37mins

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The Global Surge of Earthquakes

The Global Surge of Earthquakes

Join Dr. Thorne Lay, professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Santa ... Read more

17 Dec 2015

1hr 19mins

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What is Relativity, and Why Should You Care?

What is Relativity, and Why Should You Care?

In honor of Albert Einstein’s birthday on March 14, we’re re-publishing this podcast primer on his theories of General a... Read more

14 Mar 2018

1hr 3mins

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Frontiers Lecture: The Greatest Story Ever Told So Far with Lawrence Krauss

Frontiers Lecture: The Greatest Story Ever Told So Far with Lawrence Krauss

The fundamental laws of the universe are not what we think or perceive—they are weird, wild, and counterintuitive. We al... Read more

13 Apr 2017

1hr 20mins

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SciCafe: How the Brain Shows its Feminine Side

SciCafe: How the Brain Shows its Feminine Side

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

24 Nov 2015

51mins

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Expedition Report: Christopher Raxworthy and Sara Ruane in Madagascar

Expedition Report: Christopher Raxworthy and Sara Ruane in Madagascar

The Expeditions Report podcast series offers an insider’s look at what it’s like to live and work in the field. In this ... Read more

18 Sep 2014

16mins

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SciCafe: Islands at the Edge with Jenny Newell and Tina Stege

SciCafe: Islands at the Edge with Jenny Newell and Tina Stege

Join museum curator Jenny Newell, in company with Tina Stege of the Marshallese Educational Initiative, in a discussion ... Read more

23 Oct 2014

49mins

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SciCafe: End of the Megafauna with Ross MacPhee

SciCafe: End of the Megafauna with Ross MacPhee

Woolly mammoths and giant ground sloths are just a few of the strange animals that once roamed Earth, living on every ha... Read more

20 Dec 2018

47mins

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A Smashup of Neutron Stars & Einstein’s Theory of Relativity with Astrophysics Curator Michael Shara

A Smashup of Neutron Stars & Einstein’s Theory of Relativity with Astrophysics Curator Michael Shara

Today, scientists announced that they have detected a spectacular collision of two neutron stars some 130 million light ... Read more

16 Oct 2017

21mins

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Frontiers Lecture: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Astronaut Scott Kelly on Life in Space

Frontiers Lecture: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Astronaut Scott Kelly on Life in Space

Scott Kelly is a former Navy fighter pilot and test pilot, an engineer, and a retired NASA astronaut who over four space... Read more

9 Nov 2017

1hr 8mins

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SciCafe-The Sixth Extinction: Biodiversity Under Threat

SciCafe-The Sixth Extinction: Biodiversity Under Threat

Earth is currently experiencing an unprecedented loss of biodiversity, and it has changed dramatically in recent decades... Read more

27 Dec 2017

57mins

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SciCafe: Flipping the Genetic Switch

SciCafe: Flipping the Genetic Switch

Join geneticist Tuuli Lappalainen from the New York Genome Center to understand how genetic variants shape how our genes... Read more

9 Jul 2015

58mins

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The Milky Way as You’ve Never Seen It Before with Jackie Faherty – AMNH SciCafe

The Milky Way as You’ve Never Seen It Before with Jackie Faherty – AMNH SciCafe

In April 2018, the Gaia space telescope released its second catalog of over 1.3 billion stellar distances, helping astro... Read more

25 Oct 2018

45mins

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SciCafe—Orangutans, Obesity, and Human Evolution with Erin Vogel

SciCafe—Orangutans, Obesity, and Human Evolution with Erin Vogel

While wild orangutans in the rainforests of Borneo feed on a remarkable variety of plant life, they also endure unpredic... Read more

21 Jun 2018

47mins

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Hubble Space Telescope’s 28 Years of Exploration, with Astrophysics Curator Michael Shara

Hubble Space Telescope’s 28 Years of Exploration, with Astrophysics Curator Michael Shara

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into low Earth orbit. Over its 28- year career, Hubble has he... Read more

24 Apr 2018

36mins

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Strange New Worlds With Elizabeth Tasker

Strange New Worlds With Elizabeth Tasker

Scientists have only just begun to detect exoplanets—planets orbiting stars other than our Sun—but already these alien w... Read more

8 Mar 2018

1hr 2mins

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Neil deGrasse Tyson and Carolyn Porco on Voyager and Space Exploration

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Carolyn Porco on Voyager and Space Exploration

Have you ever pondered that picture of earth as a pale blue dot seen from space? Then you already know something of the ... Read more

24 Aug 2017

58mins

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SciCafe: Microbes in the House

SciCafe: Microbes in the House

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

30 Dec 2015

1hr 1min

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