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

Nobel Laureate Symposium

Explore the surrounding sounds that everyday objects make. Build a noise contraption from these objects, then add a PicoCricket to automate your contraption. Finally, add a light sensor and program your sound automata to "play" when triggered by light.

Tour a hydroponic greenhouse in frozen Antarctica.

In this activity, students make bridges using an oil-based modeling clay (plasticene).

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

Get down and dirty with the surprising science of soil.

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

Show yourself how a pinch of salt can take the bitter taste away.

How can a microscopic organism lift several pounds of dough? Find out with this activity.

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

Exploring the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans

How many pennies will your bridge hold?

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

See how TV screens create images from many tiny colored dots of light.

Darkening polar skies often bring beautiful light displays.

Map sunspots and build an apparatus for safe sunspot viewing!

A model for heart development

Opera singers carry notes that seem to last forever. How do they do it?

Learn how changes in genes over generations created the modern goldfish.

Explore the surprising side of sound

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

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

An artist paints his childhood home from memory.

Explore our app and measure the time of your life.

Do hot water and cold water mix?

Try your hand at explaining symbols both modern and ancient, and then make your own.

A model for heart development

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

The Instruments Aboard the Mars Exploration Rover

What's at fault?

Why is baseball so popular in Japan?

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

Explore the unknown world inside your brain with these fun activities.

Dig into the succulent science of making things grow.

Most people abhor the sound of their own recorded voice. So what are these recording devices doing to our voices to make them sound so awful?

Where is the Center of the Universe? Here, there, and everywhere.

Come along as we explore the cool, dark world of cheese.

How do you stop and steer a bicycle? What forces keep the bicycle from falling over?

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

Geometry Playground will change the way you think about geometry. This exhibition engages your hands, brain, and body in playful investigations of this most visible branch of math.