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 ...

Life in Space” runs until September at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, and is about the extreme conditions beyond Earth ...

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 ...

(04-10) 12:17 PDT SAN FRANCISCO-- A burst of fog billowed over the water at Pier 15 along the Embarcadero on Tuesday as leaders of the new Exploratorium prepared for next week's opening and workers ...

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 ...

At the “Give Heart Cells a Beat” exhibit, a visitor's heart rate is sent as an electrical signal from handlebar sensors to a lab dish of living heart cells, located behind a window a few feet away.

Paul Doherty’s wife, Ellen Henson, loved watching his hands when he taught. An animated, enthusiastic speaker, Doherty used movement to lend his words extra meaning. His teaching paired his brilliant, ...

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 ...