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

Make a simple rocket and a rocket launcher, and watch a demonstration of how the finished rocket will fly.

Learn how sparkling wine is made, what makes it different from still wine, and where all those little bubbles come from!

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

Bring movie, TV, and cartoon images to life.

A Marble Machine is a creative ball-run contraption, made from familiar materials, designed to send a rolling marble through tubes and funnels, across tracks and bumpers, and into a catch at the end.

Play with the stuff that makes dough stretchy.

Join us as we crunch our way through everything from our San Francisco sourdough to Injera and Pugliese.

Scientific knowledge and a few chemical concoctions can get you through a Bad Hair Day.

Activities and workshops for playful invention, investigation, and collaboration

Explore the science of music with us, through these online exhibits, movies, and questions.

What happens to meat when you cook it?

Search a geological map of Ethiopia for fossils.

Geometry Playground will change the way you think about geometry. This exhibition engages your hands, brain, and body in playful investigations of this most visible branch of math.

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.

Tour the Breads of the World

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

In 2009, the ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) Partners hosted a national symposium held at the Exploratorium to discuss the effects of climate change on the planet. You can watch archived webcasts of the symposium.

Make a paper model that helps explain the changing tides.

Use live data to make your own wave predictions, wherever you are.

Journey into Chaco Canyon, where ancient people built monuments to the cosmos. Journey to Chichén Itzá, where the Maya built monuments to the sun.

An introduction to the concepts and theories that contribute to contemporary complexity research.

Check out top mountain biker, Ruthie Matthes. Learn about frames and materials from a custom bike maker. Try interactive javascripts that calculate braking distances and energy consumption.

Explore the ideas behind Science of Sharing with these Activities.

What makes Antarctica inhospitable to life also makes it ideal for astronomy.

Commemorate the 1906 quake! Rummage through live earthquake data, subductive science, and more. Learn about earthquakes in Faultline: Seismic Science at the Epicenter

Hear audio clips of the ambient sounds of the rain forest at night near Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Recycle some cans to make after-dinner music!

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

Lisa Miller is a mechanic and teacher who shows her auto shop students how to use their listening skills to fix cars.

A trash-filled median blossoms into a community oasis.

Recycle a potato chip can into a simple camera.

Activities and workshops for playful invention, investigation, and collaboration

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

Download desktop wallpaper for your computer.

You may be surprised at the results of this "wimpy" workout.

Meet a kinetic sculptor.

Uncover the everyday origins of some extraordinary instruments.

A profile of frog researcher Dr. Tyrone Hayes.

To understand how skaters turn in midair, try this little experiment.

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