Telescopes and bathyscaphes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here.
One of my favorite things about Cubetown is I can just make up whatever kind of Science Department I want and have it be an actual thing. This has only been for little throw-away gags so far (and one invisible emu) but I strongly suspect it will play an important role at some point in the future.