Explore, Play, Discover: Websites, Activities, and More

Do hot water and cold water mix?

One man's journey into blindness

What kinds of candy are made and enjoyed in where you live?

A do-it-yourself cartoon kit. It's easy to make pictures move!

Grow your own stalagmites in luscious colors.

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

The common ground between pickles, cheese, bread, wine, and many other foods.

Grow spikes of crystals in the sun.

Scientific knowledge and a few chemical concoctions can get you through a Bad Hair Day.

Most paper airplanes are flat, but these paper hoops can really fly!

Why is your shadow longer in winter than in summer? Grab a basketball and some paperclips and find out!

What do you really know about what you see?

Find out why people who love birthday parties should move to Mercury.

Sometimes we can learn about outer space when space objects come to us.

An ordinary metal spoon can make some astounding sounds!

Take a microscopic tour of the staff of life.

Learn about scale and structure with eight great activities designed for the elementary classroom.

An artist paints his childhood home from memory.

Can't decide if you're sandy or silty? Try this simple test.

Explore the science behind food and cooking with recipes, activities, and archived Webcasts.

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Discover the uncommon stories behind the most common fruits and vegetables.

Explore the process of extracting DNA from Neanderthal bones.

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Are there meat by-products in makeup? Can you guess where you might find them?

The Exploratorium is taking it outside to explore natural and human-made phenomena in and around San Francisco. Look for new episodes twice each month.

Come with us to Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico, which is rich with thousand-year-old artifacts of the ancient Pueblo culture and contains sites that appear to have been astronomical observatories.

The fruit flies in this exhibit show just a few of the mutations that occur in natural fruit fly populations.

Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

This ancient temple holds a secret...can you reveal the mystery?

Three auditory illusions created by students from the Center for Electronic Art.

Discover the difference between taste and smell.

What brings archeologists and astronomers alike to this ten-mile canyon in remote New Mexico?

Your CRT screen may appear to wiggle when you give it the raspberry, but the only thing wiggling is you.

Explore graphing, angles, and storytelling by building a seesaw for your smartphone.

Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!

Use dominoes to model a nerve cell's transmission of a signal

This 2011 conference, hosted at the Exploratorium, explored the role aesthetic inquiry in public interdisciplinary environments.

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