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

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

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

Explore the scientific, historical, and cultural context behind a new opera about the first atomic bomb test.

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

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

Meet the robotic explorers that landed on Mars in 2004, and check out their tools and instruments.

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

Explore the ideas behind Science of Sharing with these Activities.

Grow spikes of crystals in the sun.

What happens to meat when you cook it?

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

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

Technological developments have changed how we view Earth. See LandSat images and learn more about our home planet.

Read stories and see footage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

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

Activities and workshops for playful invention, investigation, and collaboration

Explore the science behind food and cooking with recipes, activities, and archived Webcasts.

Explore gluten, the substance that gives bread its structure.

An artist paints his childhood home from memory.

Check out our coverage of NASA’s rover, Curiosity, from 2012.

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

Do hot water and cold water mix?

What's really going on when you bake? Find out.

Watch ancient text revealed and read for the first time in a thousand years!

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

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

Take a virtual journey to the frog capital of the world, Rayne, Louisiana.

Learn how to use physics to distinguish between raw eggs and hard-cooked eggs.

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

Explore the process of reconstructing a skull as a 3-D model.

Test your memory and compare it with your friends'.

Do hot water and cold water mix?

Learn about origami, make your own paper, and find out the best way to fold a paper airplane.

Use the Science Journal mobile app to investigate the light around you.

Build a stripped-down motor, a simple, easy-to-make version of the electric motors found in toys, tools, and appliances.

This stuff can't make up its mind -- is it a liquid or a solid?

Explore cantilevers and other structures by building with skewers.

Build a bridge from a piece of paper and explore ways of making it stronger.

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

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.