Capital Science Evening Lectures
Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
Everything in nature is regulated—from the number of vital molecules found in our bloodstreams to the number of lions living on an African savanna. Over the past 50 years, two revolutions...
1530 P St NW
Washington, DC 20016
United StatesSpecial Events
Monday, June 13, 2016 - 6:45pm to 7:45pm
Twenty-five years ago, a small team of Philippine and US scientists worked feverishly to forecast what newly-awakened Mount Pinatubo might do, and to alert everyone from indigenous peoples to high...
1530 P St. NW
Washington, DC 20005
United StatesCapital Science Evening Lectures
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - 6:45pm to 8:00pm
What do fish fossils tell us about the human body? Ancient fossils, like the Tiktaalik roseae that Dr. Shubin discovered, illustrate the transitional form between fish and land animals. ...
1530 P Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
United StatesBroad Branch Road Neighborhood Lectures
Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm
The Kuiper Belt, which has Pluto as the largest member, is a region of comet-like objects just beyond Neptune. This belt of objects has an outer edge, which we are only now able to explore in detail...
Broad Branch Road Campus
5251 Broad Branch Rd NW
Washington, DC 20015
United StatesAstronomy Lecture Series
Monday, May 16, 2016 - 6:45pm
The Hubble sequence of galaxies resembles a simple classification chart, yet underneath the neatly aligned shapes and colors lie complex and violent histories. Through radio, infrared, UV and optical...
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
United StatesSpecial Events
Friday, May 13, 2016 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Three experts judge ten young scientists as they spin tall-but-true tales of climate change, a cure for cancer, the search for life elsewhere, and much more - in 3 powerpoint-free minutes each!...
1530 P St, NW
Washington, DC 20005
United StatesSpecial Events
Monday, May 9, 2016 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
The genome editing system called CRISPR earned Science magazine’s “2015 Breakthrough of the Year.” The advent of facile genome engineering using the bacterial RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9...
1530 P Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
United StatesAstronomy Lecture Series
Monday, May 2, 2016 - 6:45pm
This is an extraordinary time in human history. While it has been only twenty years since astronomers first discovered planets outside of our solar system, we are already aware of several planets...
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
United StatesBroad Branch Road Neighborhood Lectures
Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm
A major focus of the field of chemistry is predicting how various atoms form bonds, hence molecules, and how such bonding controls the structure and properties of molecular matter....
Broad Branch Road Campus
5251 Broad Branch Rd NW
Washington, DC 20015
United StatesAstronomy Lecture Series
Monday, April 18, 2016 - 6:45pm
Our solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago in an extremely chaotic environment and has evolved significantly over that time. What we see today is an organized inner solar system with four very di...
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
United States