Join award-winning artist and filmmaker Ken McMullen for a unique presentation of films engaging ideas at the forefront of science and culture on Sunday, April 29 at 2pm at the Exploratorium, a co-presentation with the San Francisco International Film Festival.

On April 4, 2007, the Exploratorium hosts the 30th Annual Awards Dinner. Carol Bartz, Executive Chairman of the Board at Autodesk will be presented with the prestigious Director's Award; Natalie Angier, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the New York Times, receives the Public Understanding of Science Award; Dr. Kenneth Miller and Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, scientists both active in the evolution vs. intelligent design debate, will receive the Outstanding Educator's Award.

March 31, 2007 - New Martian Discoveries Webcast with Exploratorium Senior Scientist Dr. Paul Doherty, 1pm - The two Mars Rovers are alive and well after surviving their second Martian winter. See photos of discoveries they have made during their third year on Mars.

Dr. Thea Tlsty, an expert on cancer at the University of California at San Francisco, will present some of the latest research on the origin and development of cancerous cells in the body, in the final Exploratorium Cutting-Edge Biology Lecture Series event of the season. This event, What Makes Cancer Cells Go?, is free and open to the public and takes place on Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 7pm in the Exploratorium's McBean Theater.

A new science education center, notable because it is the first collaboration between the Exploratorium and a science research laboratory, has been honored for its design. The New Orleans chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has given its 2007 Award of Honor (in the category of "Divine Detail") to the new Science Education Center at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Livingston, Louisiana.

Beginning April 28, the Exploratorium presents Mind Matters: Exploring the Animal Mind, a three-program Spring lecture series that investigates the latest research and knowledge about how non-human animals' minds are similar to and different from human minds. This series anticipates a new exhibit section Mind: Attention, Emotion, and Judgment, scheduled to open at the Exploratorium in October 2007.

The Exploratorium announced plans to join Amgen at the 2007 AMGEN Tour of California, an eight-day, approximately 650-mile professional bicycle stage race, to present a collection of exhibits and demonstrations designed to reveal some of the unexpected science behind bicycling and provide insight into how the body works.

The Exploratorium offers a new audio podcast series on nanotechnology called SmallTalk. Will nanotechnology dramatically change our world through revolutions in electronics, medicine, energy, and materials? In this nano variety show, explore this new science and what it could mean. SmallTalk is released on the 15th of the month through Spring 2007. Subscribe through iTunes, or visit www.nisenet.org/podcasts The podcasts are made possible with the support of the National Science Foundation.

"If you can imagine it fully, completely, down to the last grain of sand, then it will become. That is the magic in imagication." Learn more about the art of imagication and find out what it takes to imagicate an idea into a published book as author Brad Marshland reads from and signs copies of his engaging new novel, The Imagicators.

Seyed Alavi

Seyed Alavi has created site-specific installations for The New Museum of Contemporary Art and Franklin Furnace in New York City; The University Art Museum-Cal State Long Beach; The Museum of Santa Cruz County; The deSaisset Museum; The University Art Museum, Sonoma State; The University Art Museum, Cal State San Bernadino and San Francisco's Capp Street Project.

This spring at the Exploratorium, children can explore the ways that seeing may or may not be believing at a day of science classes on March 3, 2007. Families must be Exploratorium members to participate. The class schedule is as follows:

At the Exploratorium, young Ph.D. scientists have found creative ways to bring their cutting-edge knowledge out of the research laboratory and into the museum and school classrooms. Each of the postdoctoral scientists - Drs. Stephanie Chasteen, Jill Johnsen, Sebastian Martin, and Julie Yu - came to the museum to bridge the gap between the ivory tower and public understanding of science.