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

Find the answers to common Sport! Science questions.

A do-it-yourself cartoon kit. It's easy to make pictures move!

Bring movie, TV, and cartoon images to life.

A model for heart development

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.

Tiny shrimplike crustaceans, krill play a critical roll in many marine food webs, even feeding huge baleen whales.

Get a taste of how the earth's plates move.

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

Why is baseball so popular in Japan?

Four downloadable workshop guides for teaching introductory genetics in a museum or other informal education setting.

Discover the difference between taste and smell.

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

Search a geological map of Ethiopia for fossils.

Do hot water and cold water mix?

Use the Science Journal mobile app to investigate movement.

Make a paper model that helps explain the changing tides.

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

The 1906 earthquake jolted geologists into focusing on how and why faults break loose.

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

Activities and workshops for playful invention, investigation, and collaboration

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

What geometric shapes can you find on the playground?

Why is the bicycle the most efficient way to travel? Explore bicycle science and culture.

Explore the surprising side of color.

Explore the surrounding sounds that everyday objects make. Build a noise contraption from these objects, then add a PicoCricket to automate your contraption. Finally, add a light sensor and program your sound automata to "play" when triggered by light.

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

An artist paints his childhood home from memory.

Ever notice how noisy people are?

In an earthquake, some older structures collapse and others stand tall. The difference is usually retrofitting.

What brings archeologists and astronomers alike to this ten-mile canyon in remote New Mexico?

Visit Kendon Candies, a lollipop factory in San Jose, California

Listen to bird songs and try to figure out which are songs, which are companion calls, and which are alarms.

Activities and History

See for yourself how the tilt of the earth's axis results in what we experience as the seasons.

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.

Grow spikes of crystals in the sun.

How are creative investigations sparked? What does a state of inspiration feel like? Can inspiration be transmitted from person to person? Join us for an audio slideshow series that explores the fascinating world of how we work creatively.

Join us as we investigate the sweet world of sugar.

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

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

Saving seeds helps preserve the culture of Native American farmers in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

Learn how some vibrant seniors exercise their minds, and find out what you can do to help your own memory.