Explore Activities

Find out how proteins make muscles work in this original Exploratorium poster, illustrated by David Goodsell.

Turn your kitchen trash into garden treasure.

Polarized light reveals stress patterns in clear plastic.

Make a paper model that helps explain the changing tides.

Visualize the spectacular fluid motion of convection cells.

See if you can put these sounds back together in this sonic jigsaw puzzle.

Insight into genes, reproduction, and cancer

See recent articles on polar science.

Become an aircraft designer!

Use printable images from our time-lapse movies to make flipbooks–handheld animations that you can make at home.

Your eye and brain hold on to a series of images to form a single complete picture.

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