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Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation
Hailed internationally as a soaring architectural achievement, and housing world-class scientific research facilities, next-generation classrooms, and innovative exhibitions, the Museum’s highly anticipated Gilder Center will open to the public on May 4, 2023.
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Nature's Fury: The Science of Natural Disasters
Opening at the American Museum of Natural History on November 15, Nature’s Fury: The Science of Natural Disasters will uncover the...
September 3, 2014
Study Led by Indigenous People Uncovers Grizzly Bear 'Highway'
A novel, First Nations-led research collaboration has revealed a previously undocumented grizzly bear aggregation in coastal British...
July 16, 2014
Mammoth Calf Mummies Yield Trove of Insights
Three-dimensional scans of two mummified newborn woolly mammoths recovered from the Siberian Arctic are revealing previously inaccessible...
July 8, 2014
New Scent-based Messaging Platform Demonstrated at AMNH
The first international scent messages were exchanged today between the American Museum of Natural History and the Le Laboratoire...
June 17, 2014
New Order of Marine Creatures Discovered
A deep-water creature once thought to be one of the world’s largest sea anemones, with tentacles reaching more than 6.5 feet long,...
May 7, 2014
DNA of NYC Students Reveals Microcosm of the World
The 200 college students who provided DNA samples in February 2014 for the New York City Student Ancestry Project led by The City...
April 23, 2014
Shark Fossil Reveals New Insights into Jaw Evolution
The skull of a newly discovered 325-million-year-old shark-like species suggests that early cartilaginous and bony fishes have more...
April 16, 2014
Scientists Discover Four-eyed Daddy Longlegs Fossil
Living harvestmen—a group of arachnids more commonly known as daddy longlegs—have a single pair of eyes. But new research indicates...
April 10, 2014
Skulls of Red and Giant Pandas Provide Insight into Coexistence
New research on the skulls of red pandas and giant pandas provides further explanation as to why the two species—which are not closely...
April 9, 2014
Fish Flashing Patterns Might Facilitate Mating
The new research indicates that bioluminescence—a phenomenon in which animals generate visible light through a chemical reaction—could...
March 3, 2014
Deep-diving Exosuit on Rare Public Display
The “Exosuit,” a next-generation atmospheric diving system capable of taking a diver down 1,000 feet at surface pressure, will be...
February 27, 2014
Solving a 30-Year-Old Problem in Massive Star Formation
An international group of astrophysicists has found evidence strongly supporting a solution to a long-standing puzzle about the birth...
January 27, 2014