Join us and take a journey across four dynamic themes - Questioning, Investigating, Adapting, and Connecting. Engage with leading speakers as they delve into the big questions - What groundbreaking discoveries await us? How will advancements in astronomy revolutionize our understanding? What strategies do we need to thrive in this ...
Where: Cost: $49 (thru 7/31), then $69
Lunch Break Science - LivestreamLunch Break Science is a dynamic live web series featuring fascinating short talks, engaging interviews, and lively Q&A with Leakey Foundation scientists. Each episode digs deeper into the latest human origins discoveries, with topics like Neanderthals, chimpanzee behavior, and more! Even better, you can interact with researchers during the show ...
Where: Cost: Free
'Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality' - LivestreamFrom AI-generated images to health disinformation, propagandists shape public opinion by distorting the truth. The impact of influencers and algorithms grows exponentially, making it more challenging to achieve a democratic consensus on many significant issues.Join us for a Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with Renée DiResta. Her book, Invisible Rulers: The People ...
Where: Cost: Free
Attoseconds, X-Ray Lasers, and Tracking Sub-Atomic SheepdogsElectrons are tiny, charged particles with huge jobs: They hold all matter together, they drive the chemical reactions that power life, and they transport information and energy across the globe. Despite their importance, we still don’t fully understand how they achieve all this busy work, mostly because they move astonishingly ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
After Dark: Unplug and PlayTap out of your feed and tap into hundreds of interactive experiences to share with your friends. Try out science trivia, experience experimental music by Evicshen, and explore the world of artificial intelligence with our summer exhibition Adventures in AI.Ages 18+
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95, members free
NightLifeWhen the lights dim, the museum comes alive at NightLife. With live DJs, hand-crafted drinks, glowing lights, and 60,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude, our alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.Plus, you can:Explore our two newest exhibits, Dino Days and Unseen Oceans: Roam among ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Dinner With a Star: Stellar Engulfment of Exoplanet SystemsAshlyn Leary will describe how she utilizes MESA to model the evolution of stars and compares her results to known exoplanet systems to predict if/when host stars will swallow their planets, assuming no further dynamical evolution of the systems. She will discuss her current findings, along with an analysis of ...
In this talk, Eddy Rubin delves into the human and natural forces - biological and physical - that have shaped San Francisco’s western shoreline. Through a blend of scientific analysis and personal narrative, he explores the interactions of members of this vibrant coastal ecosystem, with particular emphasis on the birds ...
