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

Gather and compare real data about sunspots and solar x-ray activity.

Nobel Laureate Symposium

Join us as we crunch our way through everything from our San Francisco sourdough to Injera and Pugliese.

Make yourself giant or tiny with a snip of the scissors.

Where do all the different languages in the world come from?

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?

Where is the Center of the Universe? Here, there, and everywhere.

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.

Explore the Traits of Life exhibition space using this 360˚ panorama.

Los movimientos del ojo hacen parecer que el dise�o brilla.

A trash-filled median blossoms into a community oasis.

You can make sentences without words!

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.

Sperimenta interattivamente l'illusione del muro del caffé.

Crabeaters have extraordinary teeth, Weddells are downright cute, and leopards are as fierce as their namesake

Play a memory concentration game: Listen closely then match pairs of sounds.

See living stem cells and find out why they are the "stem" from which all other cells develop.

Search a geological map of Ethiopia for fossils.

White-coated Arctic icons, these supreme hunters are under threat

Explore the process of extracting DNA from Neanderthal bones.

Lisa Miller is a mechanic and teacher who shows her auto shop students how to use their listening skills to fix cars.

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

Make a simple musical instrument that sounds like a swarm of buzzing bees when you spin it around.

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

Can you tell the difference between human and nonhuman embryos?

Make an observatory to see the amazing colors in bubbles!

I movimenti dei tuoi occhi faranno brillare questo disegno.

What's the quietest sound you can find – and how can you find it? Download listening tips.

Explore mechanical elements such as cams, levers, and linkages to create your own moving sculpture.

White-coated Arctic icons, these supreme hunters are under threat