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Technological developments have changed how we view Earth. See LandSat images and learn more about our home planet.
The Exploratorium wasn't built in a day—watch it go up in a minute.
Explore the important engineering concepts of yield strength, ultimate strength, and elasticity as they relate to building a better bicycle.
Prepare to experiment with soap film by getting the necessary materials.
Art/science teams explore the underlying systems that give the San Francisco Bay Area its unique character.
Three auditory illusions created by students from the Center for Electronic Art.
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
Introduce students to unique life science activities that let them work with our research-quality microscopic images and videos.
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.
Commemorate the 1906 quake! Rummage through live earthquake data, subductive science, and more. Learn about earthquakes in Faultline: Seismic Science at the Epicenter
Make a spinning disc called a stroboscope, which lets you create your own animated cartoon.
See how our location over San Francisco Bay helps save energy.
Using a simple trick of perspective, you can dress your friends in tiny cutout clothing.
Come with us to Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico, which is rich with thousand-year-old artifacts of the ancient Pueblo culture and contains sites that appear to have been astronomical observatories.
Here's how you can model the use of X rays for medical examinations with some sand and a piece of screen.
Join the Exploratorium on the playa in Black Rock Desert and explore the science of pyrotechnics, flight, dust devils, rainbows, and more.
Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!
Experiment with water, temperature, and light to see what makes a seed come out of its shell.
This clay building activity shows that when you make things bigger, weight increases faster than strength.
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.
Download a PDF file with step-by-step instructions for doing your own cow's eye dissection.