The Exploratorium is excited to invite the public to Bay Day, our annual celebration of the San Francisco Bay and ocean ...

SAN FRANCISCO (April 11, 2025) – The Exploratorium is proud to be a partner of San Francisco Climate Week, presented by Climatebase, and host a series of engaging events, including the keynote by Vice ...

Membership 101 Quick start guide for new members Welcome! We’re so happy you’re here. Your membership helps the Exploratorium do a lot of cool things, from free field trips for kids to dissecting over ...

Exploring the diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) worldviews and ways of knowing that exist beyond the dominant Western Science paradigm.

The free version of the Stop Motion Studio application will let you quickly take and combine multiple photos into an animation. Download the Stop Motion Studio app for iOS or Android to try it out!

Join us for Storytime Science—a storybook read aloud followed by a simple related science activity geared toward very young children. This month, Exploratorium staffer and children's literature ...

Illustrations by Ray Larsen Our social lives are filled with ritualistic touching: from hugs to high fives to pinky-swears. These acts of interpersonal contact create feelings of connection between ...

Happy National DNA Day, which commemorates the successful completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the discovery of DNA's double helix in 1953. Published sixty-four years ago in the journal ...

Obviously this is a gross oversimplification of how a stadium wave actually works. An actual stadium wave simulator was created by professor Tamás Vicsek of Eötvos Loránd University in Budapest. He ...

1. What’s the claim? 2. Who says? 3. What’s the evidence? 4. How did they get the evidence? 5. Is there anything (or anyone) to back up this claim? 6. Could there be another explanation? 7. Who cares?

Over the past several years of doing automata, we've developed some "classic" motion examples for participants to check out as they are starting to design their creations.

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