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 ...

See yourself as others see you in this cylindrical mirror. A flat mirror will always reflect an image that's right side up and reversed right to left. A cylindrical mirror can produce images that are ...

Make a truth teller for light. Turn an old CD into a spectroscope to analyze light—you may be surprised by what you see. Try pointing your CD spectroscope at the fluorescent light in your room, sunlit ...

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Join us for Storytime Science—a storybook read aloud followed by a simple related science activity geared toward very young children. This month, Exploratorium staffer and children's literature ...

-Sportscaster Joe Garagiola describing the first documented appearance of a "stadium wave" at the Oakland Alameda Coliseum on October 15, 1981. Consider the stadium wave: a spontaneous group behavior ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Shawn Rowe carries out research related to the intersections of everyday and STEM ways of knowing and thinking. With a background in applied linguistics and developmental psychology, his work has ...