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

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

A window on regeneration

Get a behind-the-scenes look at activities and ideas we’re exploring.

What is a gear ratio? And how do gears help make the bicycle so efficient?

Four downloadable workshop guides for teaching introductory genetics in a museum or other informal education setting.

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

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

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

Close your eyes – and open your ears.

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.

Join us as we investigate the sweet world of sugar.

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

A downloadable series of graphics from our Faultline website gives a snapshot of seismic science.

Want to see where the biggest quakes have been this week? Follow a few of the links below to see what's shaking in your neighborhood and around the world.

Listen to bird songs and try to figure out which are songs, which are companion calls, and which are alarms.

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

Land of ice and people

How good is your friend's driving? You be the seismometer, and find out whether your pal is a smooth sailor or a mover and shaker.

What are the best materials for frames? What are the best designs?

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

Want to see where the biggest quakes have been this week? Follow a few of the links below to see what's shaking in your neighborhood and around the world.

Using a spectroscope, you may see that what appears to be a single color of light is really a combination of colors called a spectrum.

A bicycle, masking tape, paper, pencil, and a little curiosity are all you need to find out how the gears of a bicycle work.

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

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

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

Here's how you can model the use of X rays for medical examinations with some sand and a piece of screen.

White-coated Arctic icons, these supreme hunters are under threat

We Moved! Follow Us to San Francisco’s Historic Waterfront

How many objects can you follow at once?

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

Visit Kendon Candies, a lollipop factory in San Jose, California

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

Activities and History

Use printable images from our time-lapse movies to make flipbooks–handheld animations that you can make at home.

Hear vocal tract models transform the squawk of a duck call into vowel sounds.

A model for heart development