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

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

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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.

Meet a kinetic sculptor.

Four times over 100-plus years, major initiatives have brought together scientists from around the globe to collaboratively study the poles.

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

Bring movie, TV, and cartoon images to life.

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

Examine words from different languages and determine which two languages are the most closely related.

Discover the uncommon stories behind the most common fruits and vegetables.

Download a PDF file with step-by-step instructions for doing your own cow's eye dissection.

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

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

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

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

Find out what all that fiddling around before a concert is really about.

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

Explore the deadly beautiful world of carnivorous plants.

Use your naked egg to experiment with osmosis, the movement of water across a membrane.

Listen to internationally recognized authorities on human thought and behavior, including Temple Grandin and Paul Ekman.

Learn how changes in genes over generations created the modern goldfish.

Can you tell the difference between human and nonhuman embryos?

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

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

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

Explore the ancient knowledge of the Maya, who built sophisticated monuments to the sun.

Visit an organic egg farm, and see the science behind raising those eggs.

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

Find out what's inside a floppy disk.

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

Learn about common techniques for peering inside the body in order to diagnose disease and injury.

APE was a four-year Exploratorium project to explore strategies and tactics to shift the role of visitors from passive recipient of information to active participant in the exhibit experience.

Learn about the body's vital defense force.

What goes on under the ground during an earthquake? Use a Slinky to model the various seismic waves that make the earth tremble.