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Make a simple rocket and a rocket launcher, and watch a demonstration of how the finished rocket will fly.
Using a simple trick of perspective, you can dress your friends in tiny cutout clothing.
How do you stop and steer a bicycle? What forces keep the bicycle from falling over?
Here are some activities that test your memory – and some things you can try to help you remember things better.
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.
How do you stop and steer a bicycle? What forces keep the bicycle from falling over?
Explore the science behind food and cooking with recipes, activities, and archived Webcasts.
Play. Invent. Explore. PIE is a group of educators who share a playful and inventive approach to teaching with technology.
Watch Reggie Watts improvise a song about visiting Mars (or not).
Is it just a glorified plank with roller skate wheels on it? Or is it a highly engineered device through which kids have reclaimed the urban landscape, bringing creativity and style back to the sterile asphalt spaces of sprawl?
A collection of auditory illusions found in indigenous folk practices, popular music, and scientific research.
What goes on under the ground during an earthquake? Use a Slinky to model the various seismic waves that make the earth tremble.
Millions of people around the world struggle to live with corneal blindness—the loss of sight caused by damage to the surface of the eye. It's a treatable condition with a clear solution: a corneal transplant. This Science in the City episode highlights the work SightLife is doing to help end corneal blindness by making transplants possible.
In February 2009, the Exploratorium hosted Darwin Days, a series of presentations, debates, and discussions exploring the ways scientists continue to learn from and apply their knowledge of evolutionary biology to a broad range of pursuits.
The more astronomy changes, the more it stays the same. This series of images juxtaposes ancient and modern study of the celestial bodies.
Watch contemporary musicians and sound artists perform and discuss their work.
A multifaceted exhibition that explored genetics and the Human Genome Project from a variety of perspectives from April 8 to September 4, 1995.
Your brain is always looking for blank spaces and filling them in. Sometimes, your brain leaps to the wrong conclusion. Then you get a surprise!
The Maya were expert sky-watchers, careful observers of the motions of the celestial bodies...
The more astronomy changes, the more it stays the same. This series of images juxtaposes ancient and modern study of the celestial bodies.
Try your hand at explaining symbols both modern and ancient, and then make your own.
Learn about ocean acidification with this simple experiment.
Hear audio clips of the ambient sounds of the rain forest at night near Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!
Meet Carlos Zapata, an automata artist showcased at Curious Contraptions.
What's the difference between white meat and dark meat? Which animals have which and why?
Meet the robotic explorers that landed on Mars in 2004, and check out their tools and instruments.