The Exploratorium has been sparking curiosity for more than 50 years, inspiring learners of all ages through hands-on science ...

Bilingual, family-friendly event on Saturday, September 27, showcases hands-on activities, inspiring talks, live music, and ...

Make three Roto-Copters for each person. Use a marker to draw a 1-foot circle on a piece of newspaper. Put a cereal bowl in the middle of the circle. The circle is the target area and the bowl is the ...

Global Climate Change Explorer: Ice Turn up the heat, and ice will melt. The effect of climate change on the world’s ice is almost that simple. Global temperatures are warming, and that warming is ...

Then, in the final seconds before the moon completely covers the Sun, there is a last bright flash, combined with an emerging view of the corona—the Sun’s upper atmosphere—encircling the moon. This ...

"Language is our essential cultural tool–we use it to share experience and so to collectively, jointly, make sense of it.… Language is therefore not just a means by which individuals can formulate ...

Hold the CD in the sunshine. Or if it's a cloudy day, turn out the lights and shine your flashlight at the CD. Hold your piece of white paper so that the light reflecting off the CD shines onto the ...

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Pi Day and pie go hand in hand; Shaw’s very first Pi Day celebration in 1988 included a pie feast for Exploratorium staff, with fruit pies and a tea urn. So show off your crafty skills on March 14, ...

Figure out where you want to explode your Bubble Bomb. Sometimes the bags make a mess when they pop, so you may want to experiment outside. If it's a rainy day, you can explode your Bubble Bombs in ...

Photosynthetic organisms capture energy from the sun and matter from the air to make the food we eat, while also producing the oxygen we breathe. In this Snack, oxygen produced during photosynthesis ...

To paraphrase French philosopher René Descartes: "I sink, therefore I am." Changes in fluid pressure affect the buoyancy of a Cartesian diver made from a condiment packet. The diver floats, sinks, or ...