
Surf the Data for Perfect Waves
by Mary Miller • February 1, 2018
Big wave secrets are all in the data.
Learn with us online while the Exploratorium is temporarily closed. You can help us reopen—donate today.
Dive into websites, activities, apps, and more.
Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!
Listen to Wayne Grim's musical representation of the transit of Venus.
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.
Four times over 100-plus years, major initiatives have brought together scientists from around the globe to collaboratively study the poles.
The legendary Joshua Light Show returns to the Exploratorium.
by Mary Miller • February 1, 2018
Big wave secrets are all in the data.
Examine words from different languages and determine which two languages are the most closely related.
by • July 3, 2015
Make your own liquid “fireworks” with this simple and safe activity.
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.
The Exploratorium wasn't built in a day—watch it go up in a minute.
Bay Area composer Eric Glick Rieman discusses his wide-ranging pieces.
Listen to internationally recognized authorities on human thought and behavior, including Temple Grandin and Paul Ekman.
Explore the science behind food and cooking with recipes, activities, and archived Webcasts.
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.
Get to know the early electronic instrument the ondes Martenot.
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.
What goes on under the ground during an earthquake? Use a Slinky to model the various seismic waves that make the earth tremble.