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Humpbacks, minkes, and orcas are often sighted in the nutrient-rich Antarctic waters.

Nobel Laureate Symposium

Professional development resources for teacher educators.

Music, fear, sadness all can cause goosebumps. But why?

Check out ColorFest, a two-month extravaganza celebrating color at the museum from July 1 to September 5.

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

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

Learn about the giants of the polar seas.

Learn about the giants of the polar seas.

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

A naked egg is an egg without a shell. Using vinegar, you can dissolve the eggshell without breaking the membrane that contains the egg.

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

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

Discover the difference between taste and smell.

Explore the mysterious interactions between light and geography through the eyes and works of artists Charles Ross and James Turrell.

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

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

Interact with the Cafe Wall Illusion.

Enjoy the early memories of some of the visitors to this website.

Zoom into a fossil chimp tooth.

Rube Goldberg-inspired cause and effect contraptions using everyday materials and found objects.

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

Why is the bicycle the most efficient way to travel? Explore bicycle science and culture.

See why these beautiful flowers have attracted generations of admirers.

Skilled listeners share their secrets.

Do hot water and cold water mix?

See for yourself how the tilt of the earth's axis results in what we experience as the seasons.

Close your eyes and listen to tell where the paddle is when you play this all-listening version of the classic game Pong.

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

Explore the mysterious interactions between light and geography through the eyes and works of artists Charles Ross and James Turrell.

Cuatro exposiciones lo suficientemente pequeñas para caber en tarjetas postales.

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

Pickling is the art of manipulating the microbial garden in foods.

Why do teens take risks, and what do our notions of risk tell us about the dangers of growing up?

Explore our app and measure the time of your life.

Decorate your white walls with rainbow colors!

What do you really know about what you see?

Sperimenta interattivamente l'illusione del muro del caffé.

Where do all the different languages in the world come from?

Making waves.

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

Bone conduction is another pathway to listening.

For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way?

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

Imagine yourself in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean. You've been sailing for weeks, and there's no land in sight. Do you know where you are? Do you know which way to go?

Meet a kinetic sculptor.

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.

The nearly ice-free Dry Valleys are an Antarctic anomaly, and Earth's closest equivalent to Mars.