Low-capacity, early access offers a more comfortable museum experience for visitors seeking designated mask-required hours ...

How to Make a Pinhole Projector There are safe ways to view the sun. The simplest requires only a long box (at least six feet long), a piece of aluminum foil, a pin, and a sheet of white paper. The ...

Eclipses can be mystifying experiences. Traditions from around the world imagine the eclipse as everything from the Sun being eaten by monsters to an intimate meeting with the moon. Here, we explore ...

Soak the seeds overnight in water. Set aside the top of the petri dish, or open the CD case. Cut the paper towel (or coffee filter) to fit inside. With a ruler and pencil, draw a straight line across ...

Our Sun is a star, like the hundreds that you see at night, only much, much closer. The Sun is a huge ball of hot, churning, unpredictable supercharged gasses called plasma. Held together by gravity, ...

Reflect on the ins and outs of mirrors. Many people believe that mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down. Actually, they don’t do either. To find out what’s really happening, try this ...

Osher West, Bechtel Central, East, and Fisher Bay Observatory Galleries 49,000 1,000 3,300 Bechtel Central, East, and Fisher Bay Observatory Galleries 33,000 730 ...

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Phil Marineau brings 35 years of operating experience and 6 years of private equity experience to the LNK team. Prior to joining LNK, Phil was a 23-year veteran of Quaker Oats, where he held positions ...

Dive into the eclipse with our live telescope feeds and educational programming. Since 1998, the Exploratorium and NASA have worked together to send expeditions to sites around the world to broadcast ...

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 ...