Golden Gate Transit bus lines 10, 70, 80, 101, and 101x terminate at the Transbay Temporary Terminal, a 20-minute walk away. Golden Gate Ferry offers ferry service from Larkspur and Sausalito and ...

Discover why your favorite cat videos don't leak out of optical fibers. A transparent material, such as glass or water, can actually reflect light better than any mirror. All you have to do is look at ...

When you watch a continuously rotating spiral, the motion detectors in your eyes become adapted to that motion. Then, when you look away, the world seems to move toward or away from you. Click on the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (December 2, 2025) – The Exploratorium is delighted to announce James Allister Sprang as its next Artist-In-Residence (AIR), following the museum’s first-ever open call for the program.

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 ...

Jim is a high school science teacher from Mercer Island, Washington, and nationally respected learning researcher. His experience was of great use in our teacher programs, especially for the Teacher ...

Liza Fior is founding partner of muf architecture/art, which negotiates between the built and social fabric and public and private spaces, generally in urban areas. She was recently involved in the ...

The late Philip Morrison was an astrophysicist and Institute Professor at MIT, and was also a book review editor for Scientific American. Together with his wife, the late Phylis Morrison, a noted art ...

Eleanor is a cognitive psychologist, educational theorist, and constructivist educator. A former student, colleague, leading translator, and interpreter of Jean Piaget, as well as renowned Professor ...