Learn with us online while the Exploratorium is temporarily closed. You can help us reopen—donate today.
Remote-Control Roller
Rub a balloon on your head, then watch a soda can race across the floor or a table. As you observe the interplay between electrons and protons, you’ll also discover why clothes cling together in a dryer.
Race and COVID-19 | After Dark Online
Find out why COVID-19 disproportionately affects certain communities.
Racism in Science | After Dark Online
Find out how science can perpetuate racism and racist systems.
Racialized Foundations in Science, Medicine, and Law | After Dark Online
Learn about racism and bias in law and medicine.
Environmental Justice | After Dark Online
The impacts of climate change and environmental policies don’t affect all communities equally. We’ll examine how environmental inequities and environmental racism have been embedded in the landscape, locally and beyond, and the fight to support equitable access to healthy environments.
Outdoor Insights | After Dark Online
Hungry for green spaces? The extended retreat indoors that is 2020 has offered many of us a friendly reminder: natural environments are essential to our well-being as humans.
After Dark Online: Outdoor Insights
Thursday, August 6, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Hungry for green spaces? Hear stories from the great outdoors.
After Dark Online: Environmental Justice
Thursday, July 30, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Examine climate inequity and the environmental justice movement’s fight against it.
SELF, MADE
Journey through the looking glass of identity and see yourself—and others—in new ways.
Hard-boiled Eggs
How do you boil an egg that peels easily and doesn’t have a gray-green ring around the yolk? This episode of Hungry for Science uses the science of gases to make the perfect hard-boiled egg. It all boils down to what’s inside an egg.
Creative Connections and Pizza Savers
I want to share this quick idea for creating connectors for cardboard tube construction. If you like pizza and derders, you may like this mashup.
After Dark Online
Every Thursday Night • 7:00–8:00 p.m.
From our home to yours, digital dispatches from After Dark.
COVID Conversations: Children, Masks, and the Surge
In the last weeks there has been a surge in COVID-19 cases, and new research on how the virus spreads among children and through the air.
Animate Your World
Automata Workbench - What's on the top?
We've been keeping experimenting with the Automata Workbench exhibit in the Tinkering Studio. These are previous blog posts Ryan wrote:
Automata Workbench Prototyping (8/21/2014)
Making an Automata Workbench Pt.
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