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

Explore new social science exhibits at San Francisco’s Civic Center.

Recycle a potato chip can into a simple camera.

The common ground between pickles, cheese, bread, wine, and many other foods.

An evening of wine, food, and talk.

Learn about the inner workings of a cell through this interactive exhibit.

Explore the process of extracting DNA from Neanderthal bones.

A model for heart development

Why do wintergreen LifeSavers spark in the dark?

Investigate actual images of the Martian surface taken by the rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

From 1977 until 2003, the Exploratorium published a quarterly magazine. The Exploratorium Magazine Online is a companion to selected issues of the print magazine, providing key articles and activities and including multimedia features.

Remote sensing allows geologists to peek under the ice – and find a big surprise.

Try these low-cost, teacher-tested activities for the classroom and the curious.

Are there meat by-products in makeup? Can you guess where you might find them?

A trash-filled median blossoms into a community oasis.

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

Take an animated tour of Antarctica's variety of ice formations, which give it a beauty unrivaled anywhere on Earth.

The 18,000-foot Mt. Parinacota presents some fitness challenges for climbers.

Learn how to tie the six knots most useful on a voyaging canoe.

Take an animated tour of Antarctica's variety of ice formations, which give it a beauty unrivaled anywhere on Earth.

Visit the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, which studies what the universe is made of and how the universe works.

An ordinary metal spoon can make some astounding sounds!

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

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.

What happens to meat when you cook it?

Plants and people alike. We all have a need to feed.

See the tiny disk of Mercury slowly travel across the face of the sun in this rare event.

You can mix just three colors of light to make over 16 million different colors!

View the night sky from any latitude on earth, and take a guided tour of the Hawaiian star families.

Learn how you too can enjoy our activities in your kitchen, garage, classroom, and community.

Your CRT screen may appear to wiggle when you give it the raspberry, but the only thing wiggling is you.

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.

Find the answers to common Sport! Science questions.

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

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

Discover the difference between taste and smell.

Visit Las Cuevas Research Station in Belize and the Natural History Museum in London to learn about the study of biodiversity.

Make a fantastic toy that shimmers when you shake it.

This simple paper toy spins through the air like a mini-helicopter!

Teeth are the most common fossils found. What can they tell us?

Seasoned gardeners depend on a community of bacteria, worms, and insects to get the most out of their plantings. Find out why.

Human corpses decay alfresco, all in the name of forensic science.

Make very, very, very tiny lightning, anytime you want!

Map sunspots and build an apparatus for safe sunspot viewing!

Follow along with expedition leader Bob Ballard and his crew on the exploration vessel Nautilus as they search for hydrothermal vents, underwater volcanoes, and ancient shipwrecks.

What do stem cells, fruit flies, and zebrafish look like under a microscope?

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

What do you really know about what you see?