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SuperNatural returns to Cal Academy October 26
SuperNatural Halloween extravaganza returns to California Academy of Sciences on Saturday, October 26

Family-friendly evening includes a silent disco, trick-or-treating, live animal demos, face painting, & crafts

mock up design of the big picture 2024 exhibit, at the Piazza in the Academy with red-orange bubble highlights throughout the exhibit.
New Academy Exhibit Celebrates the Beauty of the Natural World through Incredible Wildlife Photography

The exhibit will feature winning images from the BigPicture: Natural World Photography Competition.

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Five new trustees are pictured in close-cropped headshots

Clockwise from top left: Priya David Clemens, Will Evers, Staci Slaughter, Ahmed Muhammad, Enkhush Amarbal.

California Academy of Sciences Welcomes Five New Members to its Board of Trustees

For the first time, the cohort includes two college student Youth Trustees.

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Artist rendering of the icy Europa moon surface, with spacecraft and Jupiter in the background

Artist rendering of the Europa Clipper mission.

California Academy of Sciences to host NASA’s exhibit “Voyage of Europa Clipper: Exploring an Alien Ocean” Sept. 4-9, 2024

Gear up for the Oct. 2024 mission launch with interactive exhibits, captivating models, and NASA experts on hand

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Chelyabinsk meteor
Exhibits, Programs & Events, Science & Sustainability
Incoming! planetarium show opens March 11, 2016
February 1, 2016

The Academy's latest show to explore asteroids, comets, and the hard-hitting stories of our cosmic origins.

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Zsolt Kudich_Grand Prize 2015

BigPicture 2015 Grand Prize Winner: "Flying Egrets" by Zsolt Kudich (Budapest, Hungary).

Programs & Events, Science & Sustainability
BigPicture: Natural World Photography Competition now accepting submissions
January 22, 2016

Third annual photo competition seeks captivating images of life on Earth.

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Programs & Events
February 2016: Programs and Events at the California Academy of Sciences
January 12, 2016

New 3D show!
3D Earth: Rainforests
Opens February 5, 2016

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Flipside Science

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Education
Youth-powered video series Flipside Science explores science solutions from a new perspective
January 12, 2016

Videos hosted by teens make complex environmental topics relevant for peers and more accessible for educators.

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Animal News, Science & Sustainability
103 new species described by the California Academy of Sciences in 2015
December 16, 2015

From unknown African frogs to electric rays and animal viruses, these discoveries add to Earth’s tree of life.

Michelle Trautwein
Science & Sustainability
Scientists say face mites evolved alongside humans since the dawn of human origins
December 13, 2015

New study says that people from different regions host different mite lineages, supports “Out of Africa" theory

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Science & Sustainability
California Academy of Sciences Entomologist Brian Fisher Awarded Fulbright Scholar Grant
December 7, 2015

San Francisco’s own “Ant-Man” to study ants and climate on extended Mozambique expedition

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Programs & Events
January 2016: Programs and Events at the California Academy of Sciences
December 3, 2015

New year; new reasons to fall in love with science (all over again)

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