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

Map sunspots and build an apparatus for safe sunspot viewing!

Four times over 100-plus years, major initiatives have brought together scientists from around the globe to collaboratively study the poles.

Explore the Traits of Life exhibition space using this 360˚ panorama.

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

Can you trust your own memory? Find out with this activity.

The more astronomy changes, the more it stays the same. This series of images juxtaposes ancient and modern study of the celestial bodies.

Discover the difference between taste and smell.

Saving seeds helps preserve the culture of Native American farmers in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

Everything you ever wanted to know about bubbles, but were afraid to ask.

Explore the places, people, tools, and ideas behind the origins of matter, the universe, and life itself.

Use dominoes to model a nerve cell's transmission of a signal

How many objects can you follow at once?

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

To understand how skaters turn in midair, try this little experiment.

What happens to a cylinder when you scale it up?

An evening of wine, food, and talk.

Sometimes things are not as they appear.

What kinds of candy are made and enjoyed in where you live?

Activities and History

Modelos plásticos huecos del aparato vocal humano convierten el graznido de un pato en sonidos de vocales.

Does the sun rise in the east? Not exactly.

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

See why these beautiful flowers have attracted generations of admirers.

What brings archeologists and astronomers alike to this ten-mile canyon in remote New Mexico?

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

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

“No way! I lost a lot of cows last year!” is not something you’d expect to hear on the floor of a science museum.

Learn about the rovers that have been exploring Mars since 2004, and view the amazing images they've taken.

Recycle a potato chip can into a simple camera.

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

Find out how a cochlear implant helped one man regain the ability to listen.

An introduction to the concepts and theories that contribute to contemporary complexity research.

The three most densely populated cities on the planet where seismologists expect major earthquakes are San Francisco, Tokyo, and Istanbul. Find out why the effects in each city will be very different.

Measure your reaction time with just a meter stick and some help from a friend.

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

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