Every Thursday from 6:00–10:00 p.m., After Dark transforms the Exploratorium into an adult playground with 700+ interactive ...
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Up close, Posavec’s artwork is a colorful collection of symbols: cyan clouds, magenta lips, yellow suns, black cats, and more. From afar, the experience is very different—walk back a ways and you’ll ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Screaming headlines abound in our media-saturated world. “Killer Moths Invade Homes.” “New Drug Promises Alzheimer’s Cure.” “Experts Confirm: Sky Is Falling.” Some are obvious click bait, but others ...
-Sportscaster Joe Garagiola describing the first documented appearance of a "stadium wave" at the Oakland Alameda Coliseum on October 15, 1981. Consider the stadium wave: a spontaneous group behavior ...
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 people—both literally and ...
Woleai is one of hundreds of small coral islands scattered like breadcrumbs across the South Pacific in the region known as Micronesia. The atoll, which is about the size of Golden Gate Park, has a ...
You don’t have to be a climate scientist to teach climate change, and you don’t have to be an experienced storyteller to infuse climate content with stories. Explore these educator resources for using ...