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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?

Share some secret sounds with a friend.

Before there were clocks, people used shadows to tell time!

Recycle a potato chip can into a simple camera.

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

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?

Learn how eyes work, and watch a cow's eye dissection. Then follow step-by-step instructions to do a cow's eye dissection yourself.

Make a spinning disc called a stroboscope, which lets you create your own animated cartoon.

A do-it-yourself cartoon kit. It's easy to make pictures move!

A profile of frog researcher Dr. Tyrone Hayes.

A fish-eye view of the brain

Learn about the search for life elsewhere in the universe.

Produce some pretty mixed-up music with this online interactive.

Sometimes we can learn about outer space when space objects come to us.

Listen to internationally recognized authorities on human thought and behavior, including Temple Grandin and Paul Ekman.

Close your eyes – and open your ears.

Listen to internationally recognized authorities on human thought and behavior, including Temple Grandin and Paul Ekman.

We're open every day June 17–September 4 + and Friday nights for all ages.

How are creative investigations sparked? What does a state of inspiration feel like? Can inspiration be transmitted from person to person? Join us for an audio slideshow series that explores the fascinating world of how we work creatively.

Remote sensing allows geologists to peek under the ice – and find a big surprise.

Build a mirrored tube that lets you see around corners and over walls.

Listen to internationally recognized authorities on human thought and behavior, including Temple Grandin and Paul Ekman.

What can you do with a frozen water balloon? Plenty!

The common ground between pickles, cheese, bread, wine, and many other foods.

Make a fantastic toy that shimmers when you shake it.

How can something as light as air slow down a hit?

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

Make a scale model of the Solar System and learn the REAL definition of "space."

Follow along with expedition leader Bob Ballard and his crew on the exploration vessel Nautilus as they search for hydrothermal vents, underwater volcanoes, and ancient shipwrecks.

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

Explore the process of extracting DNA from Neanderthal bones.