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At 25 feet deep, the Philippine Coral Reef tank is one of the deepest and largest indoor display of living coral in the world. Under the surface, hundreds of fish mingle with eels, anemones, starfish, ...
At 25 feet deep, the Philippine Coral Reef tank is one of the deepest and largest indoor display of living coral in the world. Under the surface, hundreds of fish mingle with eels, anemones, starfish, ...
Children’s Puppet Theater: Choose Your Own Sauropod Adventure Daily, 11:00 am Science Today Station Choose your own adventure! Join this exciting stage program where your choices determine what ...
The gravitational lensing of the quasar known as RX J1131-1231 is considered one of the best lensed quasars discovered to date. The foreground galaxy smears the image of the background quasar into a ...
Venus begins a season-long absence from the sky, hidden by the glow of the Sun as it slowly passes behind our star, not returning to our view until August. It reaches superior conjunction on June 4, ...
At a Penguins+Pajamas Sleepover, the adventure begins well before bedtime—and continues the next day. Spark your young science-lover's imagination by exploring our exhibits after hours. Go stargazing ...
Academy Day is a celebration of the Academy’s anniversary, and each year we reflect on the community and philanthropy that make everything we do here possible. On Academy Day, pay-what-you-can tickets ...
As we celebrate the birthday of the Morrison Planetarium, we take you on its historical tour ...
Although careful, meticulous observation is often underrated, Rich Mooi has built a career on his attention to detail. For more than 30 years, Mooi has been steadily filling in and building onto the ...
In 1938, when a fisherman off the coast of Africa inadvertently caught a coelacanth, it was heralded as the biological find of the century. Thought to be the missing link between amphibians and fish, ...
Brian Fisher, the California Academy of Science's renowned entomologist, reveals there are 22,000 species of ants populating the earth. “Our ability to dig deeper into their hidden world can shed ...