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How do scientists establish the age of artifacts, rocks, and settlements?

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.

Tinker with electricity using common objects: batteries, lights, buzzers, motors, switches, etc.

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

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.

We can't predict when an earthquake will occur, but we can avoid some potential disasters.

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

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 has imagery changed the way we look at our bodies—over time and in different cultures?

A little physics can go a long way on that shortboard.

Just how do we remember a face?

Your guide to the Northern and Southern Lights (also in 'Observatory')

Play with the stuff that makes dough stretchy.

With just mud, paper and an egg, you can grow colonies of multi-hued microbes!

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

What do you really know about what you see?

On March 29, 2006, a total solar eclipse occurred when the new moon moved directly between the sun and the earth. The moon’s shadow fell on the eastern tip of Brazil, sped eastward across the Atlantic, through northern Africa, across the Mediterranean, an

Explore the ideas behind Science of Sharing with these Activities.

Use live data to check the weather in space, and learn how it can affect us here on earth.

There are about 500 dispatches from scientists working in the Arctic and Antarctica, along with original videos, photos, webcasts, and articles.

In September 2004, the Exploratorium covered a conference in the Galapagos Islands, organized by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, that considered the implications of El Niño forecasting.

Identify misalignments in your body by looking at your feet.

Polarized light passing through sugar, water "rotates" to reveal beautiful colors.

There's more to polar ice than just frozen water. Learn about the many varieties of ice found at the poles and how and where they form.

Find a friend and try this sound localization experiement

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

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

Find out why people who love birthday parties should move to Mercury.

Learn how you too can enjoy our activities in your kitchen, garage, classroom, and community.

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

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

Will the "real" South Pole please stand up?

With just mud, paper and an egg, you can grow colonies of multi-hued microbes!

The Maya were expert sky-watchers, careful observers of the motions of the celestial bodies...

Stories about science, art, and human perception—from 1998. 

Build a stripped-down motor, a simple, easy-to-make version of the electric motors found in toys, tools, and appliances.

Use the Science Journal mobile app to investigate the sound around you.

Wind tubes are a playful and inventive way to explore the effect that moving air has on objects.

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

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