
Peter Taylor's Tool Belt
by Steve Gennrich • January 7, 2017
Peter Taylor, Exploratorium Super-Technician, talks about his outdoor installation tools.
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Dive into websites, activities, apps, and more.
Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!
Turn your phone into a pocket science laboratory with tools to measure light, motion, sound, and more.
by Steve Gennrich • January 7, 2017
Peter Taylor, Exploratorium Super-Technician, talks about his outdoor installation tools.
Geometry Playground will change the way you think about geometry. This exhibition engages your hands, brain, and body in playful investigations of this most visible branch of math.
We can't predict when an earthquake will occur, but we can avoid some potential disasters.
Visit Las Cuevas Research Station in Belize and the Natural History Museum in London to learn about the study of biodiversity.
Make a simple rocket and a rocket launcher, and watch a demonstration of how the finished rocket will fly.
Scientific knowledge and a few chemical concoctions can get you through a Bad Hair Day.
Make a simple rocket and a rocket launcher, and watch a demonstration of how the finished rocket will fly.
On March 29, 2006, a total solar eclipse occurred when the new moon moved directly between the sun and the earth. The moon’s shadow fell on the eastern tip of Brazil, sped eastward across the Atlantic, through northern Africa, across the Mediterranean, an
The Exploratorium wasn't built in a day—watch it go up in a minute.
What's the science behind a home run? Why do curveballs curve? Learn about the game from players from the S.F. Giants & Oakland A's.
Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!
Explore the important engineering concepts of yield strength, ultimate strength, and elasticity as they relate to building a better bicycle.
For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way?
In the 1870s, an American woman could not vote. She could not own property in her own name after marriage. But she could play ball. . .
View the night sky from any latitude on earth, and take a guided tour of the Hawaiian star families.
by Liz Ball • July 13, 2017
Join the Kronos Quartet for a performance like no other.
For accuracy, it's best to use both a candy thermometer and the cold water test when making candy.
This card game is a little like a puzzle. You and your opponents all try to find solutions to the puzzle���and the one who finds the most solutions wins!
On March 29, 2006, a total solar eclipse occurred when the new moon moved directly between the sun and the earth. The moon’s shadow fell on the eastern tip of Brazil, sped eastward across the Atlantic, through northern Africa, across the Mediterranean, an