2015 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Water, Water
Earth is the only place in our solar system with liquid water on its surface. Even though water...
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Frontiers Lecture: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
Can science and philosophy tell us where we came from and what our place is in the universe? In...
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The 2014 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Selling Space
Space exploration is entering a new era. Dozens of aerospace companies have emerged in recent...
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From the Vault: The 2010 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
Every year, the Museum is proud to host the Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, which brings together...
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From the Vault: the 2008 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
Every year, the Museum is proud to host the Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, which brings together...
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Frontiers Lecture: Our Mathematical Universe with Max Tegmark
Cosmological mathematics are often mind-bogglingly complex, but in this podcast, cosmologist Max...
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Alfred Russel Wallace and the Birds of Paradise with Sir David Attenborough
Birds of paradise, a group of birds found mainly in New Guinea, have captivated onlookers for...
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2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation?
What may have started as science fiction – that perhaps the universe as we know it is a computer...
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Frontiers Lecture: One Second After the Big Bang
One of the fundamental predictions of the Big Bang is the present day existence of relic neutrino...
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SciCafe: Flipping the Genetic Switch
How and why do the same genes work differently in different people? What causes a gene to be...
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Frontiers Lecture: A Planet for Goldilocks with Natalie Batalha
“Not too hot, not too cold” is how scientists typically describe an ideal planet for life as we...
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The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack
Does the fact that we're humans bias the way we look at our fossilized ancestors? In this...
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Colonel Louis Cook: Revolutionary War Hero
During the Revolutionary War, Colonel Louis Cook was both the highest-ranking African American...
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Normally, when you think of venomous things, you imagine snakes, spiders, or scorpions - not...
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Frontiers Lecture: How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole
Black holes are the most exotic objects thought to exist in the universe, but no one has ever...
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SciCafe: Why Walk on Two Legs? The Pros and Cons of Bipedalism
In the fall of 2014, a team of vertebrate specialists from the Museum headed to one of the most...
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SciCafe: Explore21 - Papua New Guinea
In the fall of 2014, a team of vertebrate specialists from the Museum headed to one of the most...
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Frontiers Lecture: Supernova Forensics
What happens when a star explodes? How do we study a phenomenon that happens huge distances away...
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SciCafe: Mapping the Urban Microbiome, Genome, and Metagenome
Every year, scientists are learning more and more about the human microbiome, the collection of...
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How did Charles Darwin develop his theory of evolution by natural selection? Now you can follow...
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