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

There's more to polar ice than just frozen water. Learn about the many varieties of ice found at the poles and how and where they form.

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

An evening of wine, food, and talk.

Making waves.

Learn about the body's vital defense force.

A do-it-yourself cartoon kit. It's easy to make pictures move!

Make a scale model of the Solar System and learn the REAL definition of "space."

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

Launch a rocket with a plastic pop bottle and use Height Site to figure out how high it flies.

Did you know the Maya used two calendars? How did they know when to plan their big New Year's parties?

Art/science teams explore the underlying systems that give the San Francisco Bay Area its unique character.

Explore the surprising side of color.

A series of talks celebrating both the historical and contemporary dimensions of the Eames design legacy.

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

In celebration of Albert Einstein's work in 1905, science laboratories and museum around the world (including the Exploratorium) participated in a twelve-hour webcast that explored Einstein's influence on current physics research.

With polarized light, you can make a stained glass window without gla

Learn about bike gears using thread spools and a rubber band.

Learn how sparkling wine is made, what makes it different from still wine, and where all those little bubbles come from!

Crabeaters have extraordinary teeth, Weddells are downright cute, and leopards are as fierce as their namesake

Find out why balls bounce--or fail to bounce.

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

Learn about the most important piece of equipment-- your feet!

The Antarctic food web is the simplest on the planet, and krill are at its hub.

Make a paper model that helps explain the changing tides.

Download desktop wallpaper for your computer.

See a map of recent earthquakes in the United States, and learn why earthquakes happen so frequently on the West Coast.

Are you quick enough to hit a 90 mph fastball?

One man's journey into blindness

What goes on under the ground during an earthquake? Use a Slinky to model the various seismic waves that make the earth tremble.

Three auditory illusions created by students from the Center for Electronic Art.

In this memory game, a mental journey through your own house helps you remember items on a list.

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

What happens to meat when you cook it?

Make yourself giant or tiny with a snip of the scissors.

Want to understand how to predict when the good waves are coming to your shore? It helps to start with the basics behind the formation of ocean waves.

Can you tell the difference between human and nonhuman embryos?

What do you really know about what you see?

Not all bubbles are made with soap!