
Live from the Arctic
by Mary Miller • July 19, 2019
Live chat with an Arctic research expedition.
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Dive into websites, activities, apps, and more.
Join us as we crunch our way through everything from our San Francisco sourdough to Injera and Pugliese.
Make a simple rocket and a rocket launcher, and watch a demonstration of how the finished rocket will fly.
From 1977 until 2003, the Exploratorium published a quarterly magazine. The Exploratorium Magazine Online is a companion to selected issues of the print magazine, providing key articles and activities and including multimedia features.
In 2009, the ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) Partners hosted a national symposium held at the Exploratorium to discuss the effects of climate change on the planet. You can watch archived webcasts of the symposium.
How do you stop and steer a bicycle? What forces keep the bicycle from falling over?
by • July 3, 2015
Make your own liquid “fireworks” with this simple and safe activity.
Explore the relationship between an object's volume and its weight.
When you ride a bike in a straight line, you must make many minor corrections in order to stay upright.
See a map of recent earthquakes in the United States, and learn why earthquakes happen so frequently on the West Coast.
You can make a light painting with a light source, a darkened room, and a digital camera.
Listen to bird songs and try to figure out which are songs, which are companion calls, and which are alarms.
What would you do with 100,000 toothpicks?
Crabeaters have extraordinary teeth, Weddells are downright cute, and leopards are as fierce as their namesake
See living stem cells and find out why they are the "stem" from which all other cells develop.
Lisa Miller is a mechanic and teacher who shows her auto shop students how to use their listening skills to fix cars.
Make a simple musical instrument that sounds like a swarm of buzzing bees when you spin it around.
Explore the idiosyncrasies of strandbeest motion as one traverses the beach.
What's the quietest sound you can find – and how can you find it? Download listening tips.
Experience the psychedelic visuals of the legendary Joshua Light Show.
Explore mechanical elements such as cams, levers, and linkages to create your own moving sculpture.