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Four times over 100-plus years, major initiatives have brought together scientists from around the globe to collaboratively study the poles.
Find out about bicycle brakes and balance, and calculate your stopping distance on a bicycle.
The more astronomy changes, the more it stays the same. This series of images juxtaposes ancient and modern study of the celestial bodies.
Break water into hydrogen and oxygen using a homemade electrolysis device.
Find out how far Curiosity has traveled: read its tire tracks.
Saving seeds helps preserve the culture of Native American farmers in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.
Explore the places, people, tools, and ideas behind the origins of matter, the universe, and life itself.
Sink into the deeply synesthetic experience of the Joshua Light Show.
Wind tubes are a playful and inventive way to explore the effect that moving air has on objects.
Modelos plásticos huecos del aparato vocal humano convierten el graznido de un pato en sonidos de vocales.
How has imagery changed the way we look at our bodies—over time and in different cultures?
What brings archeologists and astronomers alike to this ten-mile canyon in remote New Mexico?
Join curator Marina McDougall for a conversation with photographer Lena Herzog.
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.
Find out how a cochlear implant helped one man regain the ability to listen.
Watch contemporary musicians and sound artists perform and discuss their work.
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.
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