Global Climate Change Explorer Keeping an Eye on Our Changing Planet. Scientists have been studying the relationship between global climate and carbon in the atmosphere for over a century, with a ...

Fill in your birthdate below in the space indicated. (Note you must enter the year as a 4-digit number!) Click on the "Calculate" button. Notice that your age on other worlds will automatically fill ...

What is a Science Snack? Science Snacks are hands-on, teacher-tested activities that bring explorations of natural phenomena into the classroom and home.

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 ...

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 ...

Can you smell time? Your dog can. On a very basic level, so can you: When you crack the lid on that old quart of milk, tentatively sniff and—peeyouu!—promptly dump that foul stuff down the sink, you ...

We have been prototyping a new automata activity called “Cranky Contraptions” using simple materials such as wooden blocks, wire, and foamies. Now that it’s been about a month that we have been ...

Fireworks may be a really fun way to celebrate the Fourth of July, but we know they are more than a little dangerous. The solution? Grab a friend and make your own liquid fireworks with this simple ...

SAN FRANCISCO (September 11, 2024) – On Saturday, September 28, the Exploratorium will host its annual Latinx+ Engineering Day in partnership with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) ...

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. On the old PIE pdf for ...

Raw Materials might be cardboard boxes, thin cardboard (like pasta packaging or cereal boxes), toilet paper tubes, skewer sticks, and pencils.. Connectors include masking tape, brads, string, hardware ...

I also disconnected the coin acceptor, coin changer, and bill validator to access the selection panel (the keypad). During this process, it was really helpful to watch InOneTechnology’s tutorial video ...