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

Learn how changes in genes over generations created the modern goldfish.

Try your hand at explaining symbols both modern and ancient, and then make your own.

The Antarctic food web is the simplest on the planet, and krill are at its hub.

APE was a four-year Exploratorium project to explore strategies and tactics to shift the role of visitors from passive recipient of information to active participant in the exhibit experience.

How are creative investigations sparked? What does a state of inspiration feel like? Can inspiration be transmitted from person to person? Join us for an audio slideshow series that explores the fascinating world of how we work creatively.

Stand outside on a sunny day with a watch in your hand, and you can tell which way is north.

For accuracy, it's best to use both a candy thermometer and the cold water test when making candy.

Explore the surprising side of color.

An introduction to the concepts and theories that contribute to contemporary complexity research.

Learn how grafting, hybridizing, and transgenics have transformed cultivation.

See why these beautiful flowers have attracted generations of admirers.

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

Learn about the body's vital defense force.

How good is your friend's driving? You be the seismometer, and find out whether your pal is a smooth sailor or a mover and shaker.

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

Follow our crew as they visit the Dry Valleys and hike the slopes of volcanic Mt. Erebus.

Find out what's inside a floppy disk.

San Francisco was born in gold dust, and nearly died in rubble and ashes.

Explore Saturn, its rings and moons, and see the latest images.

I movimenti dei tuoi occhi faranno brillare questo disegno.

Make your own refracting telescope from a pair of reading glasses.

Journey into Chaco Canyon, where ancient people built monuments to the cosmos. Journey to Chichén Itzá, where the Maya built monuments to the sun.

Pickling is the art of manipulating the microbial garden in foods.

It's not just the moon that causes ocean tides.

The fact and fiction behind some bizarre gardening remedies.

Journey into Chaco Canyon, where ancient people built monuments to the cosmos. Journey to Chichén Itzá, where the Maya built monuments to the sun.

Learn how eyes work, and watch a cow's eye dissection. Then follow step-by-step instructions to do a cow's eye dissection yourself.

Can a gum wrapper have a story? Discover just how important and meaningful an object can be.

What happens to meat when you cook it?

Take an animated tour of Antarctica's variety of ice formations, which give it a beauty unrivaled anywhere on Earth.

Take a virtual journey to the frog capital of the world, Rayne, Louisiana.

Get up close and personal with a sucrose molecule.

Learn about the most important piece of equipment-- your feet!

Our reactions may be trained, but the devices that make music sound "sad" are real enough.

Hear audio clips of the ambient sounds of the rain forest at night near Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Introduce students to unique life science activities that let them work with our research-quality microscopic images and videos.

Get a taste of how the earth's plates move.

Bring movie, TV, and cartoon images to life.