Experience the Exploratorium. Let your curiosity roam free through hundreds of exhibits in our six spacious indoor and outdoor galleries at Pier 15, San Francisco.

Take the Capitol Corridor train to Richmond. Transfer to BART toward San Francisco, and get off at the Embarcadero station, a 10- to 15-minute walk from the Exploratorium.; Take the Capitol Corridor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A clip from the song "Better Days." In a sense, the Colombian army was doing the same thing as POW Jeremiah Denton, using Morse Code to communicate past the captors without their knowledge.And it ...

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 ...

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 ...

We love laser engraving! We've been laser engraving on wood and plastics and they have been great when we make signs/signage in the Tinkering Studio. Lately I've been experimenting with filling some ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...