Today the Google logo has been transformed into a work of art similar to the work of Alexander Calder to celebrate his 113th birthday.

He is most well known for his mobile sculptures, but he also made paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry, jewellery and household objects.

His mobiles are perfectly balanced with flat bright coloured sheet metal which spin almost independently of each other.

If you use a browser that supports the HTML5 canvas tag (Chrome, Firefox 3.5+ Safari or IE9)  you’ll be able to play with it, spinning the mobile and watching the shadows spin below.

What do you think of this Doodle? Let us know in the comments below!

Today Google is celebrating the 189th birthday of Gregor Mendel, an Austrian friar and scientist who is known as the “father of modern genetics”.

You may be wondering what this has to do with peas…

Mendel studied genitic variation in pea plants. Between 1856 and 1863 he cultivated nearly 30, 000 pea plants.

His study showed that one in four plants showed recessive genes, two showed hybrids of recessive and dominant genes and the other showed only the dominant gene.

These findings led him to make two generalisations which are known as Medel’s Laws of Inheritance.

The Google logo has again been transformed into a work of art, just as Sir George Gilbert Scott transformed many hundreds of workhouses, schools, churches and cathedrals into architectural masterpieces.

His most notable work however was the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras station which boasted 300 rooms, with many costly fixtures including rooms with gold leaf walls, a fireplace in every room and a grand staircase.

The hotel was shut down in the 1980′s and re-opened in on the 5th of May 138 years after it’s original grand opening in 1873.

Google is celebrating the 450th anniversary of the Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat, more commonly known as St Basil’s Cathedral.

The Cathedral was erected in Red Square, Moscow in 1561 and took 6 years to construct.  It marks the Geometric centre of the city.

What do you think of it? Let us know in the comments.

If you look closely you can see the name of his company KaiKai Kiki (in Japanese)  on the ears of the characters in the picture.

The Google Logo has been transformed into a 7 second video of the of the event (which actually took about 1.5 hours). This was said to be the longest lunar eclipse in over 11 years!

You can see a video of the doodle below:

Did you get to see the eclipse last night? Let us know about it in the comments below!

Today Google’s Logo is celebrating the 67th birthday of the Mr. Men and Little Miss creator Roger Hargreaves. The British author wrote 90 books in the Mr Men and Little Miss series which have had sales over 85 million worldwide in 20 languages.

The Google changes each time you access the page and features a total of 16 different doodles from Mr Happy to Little Miss Chatterbox.

Click on the thumbnail to view them all!

119 years ago in Ithaca , New York John M. Scott and Chester Platt invented the dish, which they first derved as the “Cherry Sunday”. After attempting to trademark the term “Sunday” it became known as a “Sundae”!

If you used Google today (who doesn’t use Google every day?) you would have seen the doodle for today is celebrating Robert Bunsen’s 200th birthday, what you may not have noticed is the mouse control it has.

Move your mouse left or right and the flame goes from yellow to blue respectively, move your mouse up or down and the flame gets bigger the higher your mouse is.