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

Follow scientists looking for life in the hot springs of the Russian Far East.

Explore webcasts, stories, dispatches, photos, and articles of total and annular solar eclipses and transits.

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What do snowflakes look like on Mars?

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

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

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

Discover how researchers study climate change and examine the latest scientific data.

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

What happens to meat when you cook it?

You can measure your reaction time with just a yardstick and some help from a friend.

Imaginative Designs in Digital and Analog Clothing

APE was a four-year Exploratorium project to explore strategies and tactics to shift the role of visitors from passive recipient of information to active participant in the exhibit experience.

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

An incubator for innovative public space ideas, projects and news

Discover the difference between taste and smell.

Activities and workshops for playful invention, investigation, and collaboration

Explore an interactive map.

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.

What happens to sandy or fine-grained soils when an earthquake shakes them up? Try this simple activity to find out.

Just how much fat is in ground beef? You may be surprised.

Make your own refracting telescope from a pair of reading glasses.

This stuff can't make up its mind -- is it a liquid or a solid?

Use this handy conversion calculator to convert between the many units found in recipes.

Use this handy conversion calculator to convert between the many units found in recipes.

In February 2009, the Exploratorium hosted Darwin Days, a series of presentations, debates, and discussions exploring the ways scientists continue to learn from and apply their knowledge of evolutionary biology to a broad range of pursuits.

Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!

Explore the ancient knowledge of the Maya, who built sophisticated monuments to the sun.

Learn about the giants of the polar seas.

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

Search a geological map of Ethiopia for fossils.

Watch ancient text revealed and read for the first time in a thousand years!

If you're a patient gardener, you can grow your own hybrid flowers.

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

Discover secret colors hidden in a black marker!

The majority of Barrow residents are indigenous people who live both traditional and modern lives

Visit the Outdoor Exploratorium at Fort Mason to explore the science behind wind, waves, and more.

Discover how researchers study climate change and examine the latest scientific data.

Demonstrations of electric Robo-Cars made by 22 Science Summer students.

Learn how living things get energy from dead ones in this interactive exhibit.

Tiny shrimplike crustaceans, krill play a critical roll in many marine food webs, even feeding huge baleen whales.

Can you tell the difference between human and nonhuman embryos?