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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 ...

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 ...

The Exploratorium is a professional home and hub for PreK–12 teachers and leaders and a local laboratory for global science learning. Teachers matter to student achievement more than anything else in ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Before you take the next photo, make sure that you slide down the dot on the slider bar on the left. This gives you an onion skin (a faint ghost of the previous image that you captured) to help you ...

Join us for Storytime Science—a storybook read-aloud, followed by a simple activity geared toward young children. This January, the Exploratorium's own Vivian Altmann reads Oscar and the Bat: A Book ...

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 ...

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 ...