Capital Science Evening Lectures
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
Each summer, a volume of water equivalent to 10 Chesapeake Bays melts off of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Much of this meltwater reaches the ocean, but its path is neither direct nor simple. On its way,...
1530 P St. NW
Washington, DC 20005
United StatesCapital Science Evening Lectures
Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
On New Year’s Day in 1925, a young Edwin Hubble released his finding that the Milky Way was not alone but instead accompanied by billions of other galaxies. Six years later, in a series of...
1530 P St. NW
Washington, DC 20005
United StatesBroad Branch Road Neighborhood Lectures
Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
Symbiosis refers to mutually beneficial interactions between different organisms. Endosymbiosis is a type of symbiosis in which one organism lives inside another organism. Endosymbiotic relationships...
5251 Broad Branch Rd. NW
Greenewalt Auditorium
Washington, DC 20016
United StatesCapital Science Evening Lectures
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
Microbial life does not always depend on access to sunlight. In fact, most microbial cells on Earth are buried
in our continental crusts and hidden beneath our oceans. These life forms have only...
1530 P St. NW
Washington, DC 20005
United StatesCapital Science Evening Lectures
Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
The discovery that genome engineering could be accomplished by harnessing the bacterial CRISPR-Cas9 immune defense system is one of the most-important scientific breakthroughs of our time. Like a...
1530 P St. NW
Washington, DC 20005
United StatesBroad Branch Road Neighborhood Lectures
Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
The phenomenon of magnetic resonance was first revealed in the classic Stern-Gerlach experiment in 1922. Over the nearly 100 years and 10 Nobel Prizes that followed, magnetic resonance has developed...
5251 Broad Branch Rd. NW
Greenewalt Auditorium
Washington, DC 20016
United StatesCapital Science Evening Lectures
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
SPECIAL LOCATION! NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES - FRED KAVLI AUDITORIUM
Cancer kills millions of people every year and is one of humanity’s greatest health challenges. By stimulating the...
National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20002
United StatesBroad Branch Road Neighborhood Lectures
Thursday, September 12, 2019 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
We stand at an epochal moment in human history – we are about to learn if we are alone in the universe. The Kepler Space Telescope has shown that Earth-like worlds are commonplace. NASA is...
5251 Broad Branch Road NW
Greenewalt Auditorium
Washington, DC 20016
United StatesCapital Science Evening Lectures
Thursday, June 27, 2019 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
Cosmological observations show that on the largest scales accessible to our telescopes, the universe is very uniform, and the same laws of physics operate in all the parts of it that we can see....
1530 P St. NW
Washington, DC 20005
United StatesSpecial Events
Tuesday, June 25, 2019 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
Of what is the universe made? Recent observations suggest surprising results. Not only is most of the matter in the universe dark and unconventional but, more surprisingly, the major component...
1530 P St. NW
Washington, DC 20005
United States