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

Make cool boxes out of old (or new) greeting cards and postcards.

See astounding musical instruments made by Bart Hopkin

Spin the bottle to see beautiful swirling shapes

A drop of water makes a fine magnifying lens.

The three most densely populated cities on the planet where seismologists expect major earthquakes are San Francisco, Tokyo, and Istanbul. Find out why the effects in each city will be very different.

Learn about the inner workings of a cell through this interactive exhibit.

Heat-trapping gases play a major role in polar climate change.

Skilled listeners share their secrets.

A multifaceted exhibition that explored genetics and the Human Genome Project from a variety of perspectives from April 8 to September 4, 1995.

Watch tiny blue, green, and white molds grow on leftover food.

With just mud, paper and an egg, you can grow colonies of multi-hued microbes!

A window on regeneration

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

Decorate your white walls with rainbow colors!

Download desktop wallpaper for your computer.

Do hot water and cold water mix?

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

A brief introduction to the land of the midnight sun.

Meet David Goodsell, a molecular biologist and artist who finds beauty in the molecules of cells.

Activités pour la classe élémentaire.

See links relevant to the themes presented in the Traits of Life exhibition.

Read stories and see footage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

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

Explore the ideas behind Science of Sharing with these Activities.

A Scribbling Machine is a motorized contraption that moves in unusual ways and leaves a mark to trace it's path.

See why these beautiful flowers have attracted generations of admirers.

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

Can you cover your kitchen tracks?

See links relevant to the themes presented in the Traits of Life exhibition.

Using a spectroscope, you may see that what appears to be a single color of light is really a combination of colors called a spectrum.

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

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

Watch ancient text revealed and read for the first time in a thousand years!

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

The nearly ice-free Dry Valleys are an Antarctic anomaly, and Earth's closest equivalent to Mars.

Join the Exploratorium on the playa in Black Rock Desert and explore the science of pyrotechnics, flight, dust devils, rainbows, and more.

Interact with the Cafe Wall Illusion.

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

Four downloadable workshop guides for teaching introductory genetics in a museum or other informal education setting.

Four times over 100-plus years, major initiatives have brought together scientists from around the globe to collaboratively study the poles.

Visit the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, which studies what the universe is made of and how the universe works.