The nationally renowned culinary brand brings its award-winning services to the beloved bayfront science museum ...

What Are the Three Types of Solar Eclipses?

The Big Bang theory raises some important questions about the fundamental nature of the universe: Will the expansion of the universe, set in action by the Big Bang, continue forever? Or will gravity ...

Artist Bob Miller's Light Walk at the Exploratorium will change the way you look at light, shadow, and images.

Eclipses can be mystifying experiences. Traditions from around the world imagine the eclipse as everything from the Sun being eaten by monsters to an intimate meeting with the moon. Here, we explore ...

Gravity doesn’t care if you trip. Density columns have many layers of liquids that sit on top of each other, but if you accidentally mix them up, most will settle into just two layers. You can shake ...

Now we have great tools like spreadsheets to do the numerical computations for us. Below you can download OpenOffice (or Libre Office), Apple Numbers or Excel format files. In these spreadsheets, you ...

Climate change models predict that some parts of the world will get more rain and snow than the historical average, while others will get less. Different climate models give slightly different ...

Another popular system called a diagrammatic cipher, used by many children in school, substitutes symbols for letters instead of other letters. This system is, in essence, the same as the letter ...

Put de-shelled eggs in different fluids and watch them swell and shrink. Use a giant cell—a de-shelled chicken egg—to explore the comings and goings of cellular substances. De-shell the eggs by ...

A Scribbling Machine is a motorized contraption that moves in unusual ways and leaves a mark to trace its path. It’s made from simple materials and demonstrates the erratic motion created by an offset ...

After 10 minutes, take a look at the nails. Are they a different color than they were before? Is the leaning nail 2 different colors? If not, leave the nails in the bowl and check on them again in an ...