All light is made up of waves of electromagnetic radiation. A spectroscope spreads each different wavelength to a different position within a spectrum of light. Music is digitally recorded as circular ...

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.

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 weight below in the space indicated. You can enter your weight in any unit you wish. Click on the "Calculate" button. Notice that the weights on other worlds will automatically fill in.

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 ...

The Tinkering Studio is primarily an R&D laboratory, so whenever possible we try to share our projects, explorations, and developing ideas. Tinkerers We often invite artists, scientists, educators, ...

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 ...

Egg proteins change when you heat them, beat them, or mix them with other ingredients. Understanding these changes can help you understand the roles that eggs play in cooking. Proteins are made of ...

Cut a strip of coffee filter or paper towel about 2 inches (5 cm) wide and 6 inches (15 cm) long. Use the water-based black marker to draw a line across the width of the strip. The line should be ...

The High Five The same research shows that a high five transfers only half as many germs as a normal handshake. That's a big improvement! It may feel like high fives has been around forever, but in ...

Collaborators since 2000, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder stage the scene of film as orphaned object through the temporal labor of a moving image installation. They unite the rich traditions of ...

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 ...