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An interactive storytime about how humans are connected to each other and the natural world. Daily, 10:15 a.m. Learn about our charismatic African penguin colony from an Academy biologist. Daily, ...

The Academy’s iconic Living Roof is more than a beautiful architectural feature; it's critical to the building’s heating and cooling efficiency. The six inches of soil substrate on the roof acts as ...

Academy Research Associate Zeray Alemseged leads the annual Dikika Research Project (DRP) expeditions. For the past 12 years, he's taken international teams of researchers—specializing in ...

Today's post is Science Today's last. Thanks for joining us these past eight years! Ring in the New Year with a couple of comets and a megamaser. Plus, we remember astrophysicist Vera Rubin.

Applications will be open February 1, 2025 through April 1, 2025. Selected applicants will be required to attend an in-person group interview on Saturday, April 19, 2025. The California Academy of ...

Give students an opportunity to imagine how or what they’d like to investigate next. This line of thinking reinforces the fact that science is never finished – it’s an ongoing and iterative process.

Learn about all the individual elements and forces that make up an earthquake.

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 ...

Students will explore tectonic plate boundaries and different types of seismic waves generated by earthquakes.

Plates: Massive rocks that make up the outer layer of the Earth’s surface and whose movement along faults triggers earthquakes ...

To date, the larger Pacific striped octopus has been observed only in a small handful of locations off the coast of Nicaragua, in murky intertidal waters close to the mouths of rivers. For all we’re ...