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

View the full eclipse visible from China in 2008.

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

They're a menace to ships, but life thrives in these frozen oases.

Spin the bottle to see beautiful swirling shapes

A naked egg is an egg without a shell. Using vinegar, you can dissolve the eggshell without breaking the membrane that contains the egg.

Explore the important engineering concepts of yield strength, ultimate strength, and elasticity as they relate to building a better bicycle.

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.

Listen to bird songs and try to figure out which are songs, which are companion calls, and which are alarms.

The majority of Barrow residents are indigenous people who live both traditional and modern lives

How do different sounds combine to make the unique audio environments of specific places? Build the soundscapes of a beach and a train station.

How can a microscopic organism lift several pounds of dough? Find out with this activity.

Art/science teams explore the underlying systems that give the San Francisco Bay Area its unique character.

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

In this activity, students make bridges using an oil-based modeling clay (plasticene).

Technological developments have changed how we view Earth. See LandSat images and learn more about our home planet.

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

This new version of an old game will bend your brain.

Learn more about the process of making Champagne.

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

Explore the surrounding sounds that everyday objects make. Build a noise contraption from these objects, then add a PicoCricket to automate your contraption. Finally, add a light sensor and program your sound automata to "play" when triggered by light.

In Observance of the 50th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Have you ever wondered what makes blue cheese blue, or why some cheeses are hard and others soft?

Find out about bicycle brakes and balance, and calculate your stopping distance on a bicycle.

High energy prices got you down? Discover how pickles can ease your troubles.

Downloadable media about earthquake science.

Grow spikes of crystals in the sun.

Can you tell the difference between human and nonhuman embryos?

Close your eyes and listen to tell where the paddle is when you play this all-listening version of the classic game Pong.

Interact with the Cafe Wall Illusion.

This stuff can't make up its mind -- is it a liquid or a solid?

Search a geological map of Ethiopia for fossils.

Learn about the search for life elsewhere in the universe.

Get up close and personal with a sucrose molecule.

Want to understand how to predict when the good waves are coming to your shore? It helps to start with the basics behind the formation of ocean waves.

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

Explore our 2000 guide to the solar max, the period in the solar cycle during which the number of sunspots is greatest.

Spin the bottle to see beautiful swirling shapes

Can you take a sip of water from a cup with your eyes closed?

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

With polarized light, you can make a stained glass window without gla