After Dark: All Is Bright

Discover a once-missing element at Everything Matters: Technetium; excite your atoms at Glow, our annual festival of ebullient lights; experience a landscape of astonishing visual effects at Kaleidoscope; and bring flying, sailing, and cycling automata to life at Curious Contraptions.

8:00 PM: Everything Matters

The element technetium was known to science long before it was discovered, and when it finally came to light, it was the first primarily synthetic element to be produced in a lab. Get the details on the race to find this “missing” element and how a Bay Area scientist helped get the job done at Everything Matters: Technetium with Exploratorium scientist Ron Hipschman.