
Meta Cookie: Olfactory and Gustatory Augmented Reality
by Rob Rothfarb • February 11, 2011
Visitors experienced the sights and smells of "Meta Cookie', an augmented reality installation at After Dark: Get Surreal.
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Dive into websites, activities, apps, and more.
by Rob Rothfarb • February 11, 2011
Visitors experienced the sights and smells of "Meta Cookie', an augmented reality installation at After Dark: Get Surreal.
What's the quietest sound you can find – and how can you find it? Download listening tips.
Get to know the early electronic instrument the ondes Martenot.
Crabeaters have extraordinary teeth, Weddells are downright cute, and leopards are as fierce as their namesake
Put on a mask and see how we communicate with our bodies as well as with our faces and words.
anatomy of a skateboard, skateboard tricks, types of skateboarding, physics glossary.
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.
How does solitary confinement affect the human brain?
Think you have a lot in common with a kiwi fruit? Genetically speaking, you do.
Find out how a cochlear implant helped one man regain the ability to listen.
Meet the robotic explorers that landed on Mars in 2004, and check out their tools and instruments.
Learn how some vibrant seniors exercise their minds, and find out what you can do to help your own memory.
Three auditory illusions created by students from the Center for Electronic Art.
Far north in the night sky, a faint glow appears on the horizon. Green and red flames of light stretch across the sky.
Four downloadable workshop guides for teaching introductory genetics in a museum or other informal education setting.
For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way?
Listen to bird songs and try to figure out which are songs, which are companion calls, and which are alarms.
Where are you in infinity? Try the Infinity Room.
Your brain is always looking for blank spaces and filling them in. Sometimes, your brain leaps to the wrong conclusion. Then you get a surprise!
Why is the bicycle the most efficient way to travel? Explore bicycle science and culture.
Tinker with electricity using common objects: batteries, lights, buzzers, motors, switches, etc.
Experiment with water, temperature, and light to see what makes a seed come out of its shell.
A collection of auditory illusions found in indigenous folk practices, popular music, and scientific research.
An introduction to the concepts and theories that contribute to contemporary complexity research.
See a map of recent earthquakes in the United States, and learn why earthquakes happen so frequently on the West Coast.
Experience A.J. Racy's compositions exploring ancient forms from Middle Eastern culture.
See links relevant to the themes presented in the Traits of Life exhibition.
See living stem cells and find out why they are the "stem" from which all other cells develop.
Turn your phone into a pocket science laboratory with tools to measure light, motion, sound, and more.
by Liz Ball • July 13, 2017
Join the Kronos Quartet for a performance like no other.