A new mobile app from San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum lets users dig into the science behind the most extraordinary celestial event of the year: the total solar eclipse that will sweep ...

Legend has it that one day in the fall of 1969, Frank Oppenheimer was standing in the cavernous Palace of Fine Arts, tinkering with one of the exhibits he had invented for the hands-on science museum ...

San Francisco's Exploratorium, one of the nation's most successful science and technology centers, has just opened its brand new location. Spencer Michels reports on how the center's hands-on teaching ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Since 1984, the Exploratorium has supported the professional development of middle school and high school math and science teachers through the Teacher Institute (TI). TI ...

It looked like an everyday pet store scene - tiny fish being scooped with a net into plastic bags and loaded into a car. But these zebra fish weren't going just anywhere. They were headed to their ...

Kwan Liu Ma, director of the UC Davis Center for Visualization, co-developed an interactive exhibit that uses data visualizations and touch interactions to allow users to explore plankton populations ...

The Exploratorium, that quirky, hands-on science museum on the Embarcadero, is spreading its exhibits to exotic places, from Turkey to Abu Dhabi and beyond — and as close to home as the new children’s ...

At the Exploratorium, one does not stand stiffly in front of musty exhibits and read tiny placards. There is no room for boredom or passively observing. The installations at this interactive science ...