The Exploratorium—Piers 15 and 17—San Francisco, Susan Schwartzenberg ...

Seeing Your Breath: Using Science to Choose the Proper Mask ...

Paul Doherty on The Late Show with David Letterman (1996) ...

Photosynthetic organisms capture energy from the sun and matter from the air to make the food we eat, while also producing the oxygen we breathe. In this Snack, oxygen produced during photosynthesis ...

The Art of Tinkering: Scott Weaver's 100,000-Toothpick Sculpture of San Francisco ...

Hungry for fresh, exciting science activities based in amazing phenomena? Science Snacks are hands-on, teacher-tested activities that bring explorations of natural phenomena into the classroom and ...

Mars in a Minute-How do you land on Mars?

The ClimateMusic Project with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music ...

This installation was planned jointly by students from the San Francisco Boys & Girls Clubs (BGC) and a team from the Exploratorium’s Studio for Public Spaces. The parklet—a temporary public space the ...

Measure the efficiency of solar cells as they convert sunlight to power. Solar cells convert light energy into electrical energy. With a few simple tools on a sunny day (or working indoors under a ...

The energy released in an earthquake ranges over many orders of magnitude. Earthquakes are measured on a magnitude scale that is exponential: Each additional unit multiplies the energy released by 32.

Antarctica: Extreme Life at McMurdo with Mary Miller and Craig Dunne ...