
An Insider’s View into the Market Street Prototyping Festival
by Steve Gennrich • April 3, 2015
The Studio for Public Spaces team is leading the way at the Market Street Prortyping Fesitval.
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Make a scale model of the Solar System and learn the REAL definition of "space."
Art/science teams explore the underlying systems that give the San Francisco Bay Area its unique character.
Introduce students to unique life science activities that let them work with our research-quality microscopic images and videos.
Catch a wave—then measure it, reflect it, and see what happens.
Why is your shadow longer in winter than in summer? Grab a basketball and some paperclips and find out!
The lure of Terra Australis Incognita begins with the Ancient Greeks and ends with modern cruise ships.
Ensure a successful ocean acidification experiment with these teaching tips.
Use live data to check the weather in space, and learn how it can affect us here on earth.
Download a PDF file with step-by-step instructions for doing your own cow's eye dissection.
Check out top mountain biker, Ruthie Matthes. Learn about frames and materials from a custom bike maker. Try interactive javascripts that calculate braking distances and energy consumption.
For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way?
Wind tubes are a playful and inventive way to explore the effect that moving air has on objects.
The Science Information Infrastructure (SII) is a collaboration among teachers and scientists. The SII at the Exploratorium is developing educational resources using NASA images and datasets.
How do you stop and steer a bicycle? What forces keep the bicycle from falling over?
Your CRT screen may appear to wiggle when you give it the raspberry, but the only thing wiggling is you.
On Saturday, May 6th, 2000 we hosted a live panel discussion and webcast to explore the amazing phenomena of Star Trek.
How good is your friend's driving? You be the seismometer, and find out whether your pal is a smooth sailor or a mover and shaker.
Journey into Chaco Canyon, where ancient people built monuments to the cosmos. Journey to Chichén Itzá, where the Maya built monuments to the sun.
Decorate your desktop with some of the most intriguing pattern and perception images from the Exploratorium.
by Steve Gennrich • April 3, 2015
The Studio for Public Spaces team is leading the way at the Market Street Prortyping Fesitval.
Watch Reggie Watts share some of his feelings about Mars.
These unique – and uniquely beautiful – seal species spend their lives amid the sea ice