
Meta Cookie: Olfactory and Gustatory Augmented Reality
by Rob Rothfarb • February 11, 2011
Visitors experienced the sights and smells of "Meta Cookie', an augmented reality installation at After Dark: Get Surreal.
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Dive into websites, activities, apps, and more.
Why do teens take risks, and what do our notions of risk tell us about the dangers of growing up?
Explore the scientific, historical, and cultural context behind a new opera about the first atomic bomb test.
Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!
Meet Carlos Zapata, an automata artist showcased at Curious Contraptions.
Prepare to experiment with soap film by getting the necessary materials.
A naked egg is an egg without a shell. Using vinegar, you can dissolve the eggshell without breaking the membrane that contains the egg.
Check out ColorFest, a two-month extravaganza celebrating color at the museum from July 1 to September 5.
by Rob Rothfarb • February 11, 2011
Visitors experienced the sights and smells of "Meta Cookie', an augmented reality installation at After Dark: Get Surreal.
Make a spinning disc called a stroboscope, which lets you create your own animated cartoon.
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.
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.
What happens when two hockey players collide? Try our hockey collision calculator!
Tinker with electricity using common objects: batteries, lights, buzzers, motors, switches, etc.
Listen to bird songs and try to figure out which are songs, which are companion calls, and which are alarms.
Take an animated tour of Antarctica's variety of ice formations, which give it a beauty unrivaled anywhere on Earth.
Discover how researchers study climate change and examine the latest scientific data.
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.
Complete an electrical circuit with your body and explore ways to control the flow of electricity.
Your brain is always looking for blank spaces and filling them in. Sometimes, your brain leaps to the wrong conclusion. Then you get a surprise!
Got questions about electrolysis in the classroom? We've got answers.
Use printable images from our time-lapse movies to make flipbooks–handheld animations that you can make at home.
Explore the science behind food and cooking with recipes, activities, and archived Webcasts.
Journey into Chaco Canyon, where ancient people built monuments to the cosmos. Journey to Chichén Itzá, where the Maya built monuments to the sun.
Why is the bicycle the most efficient way to travel? Explore bicycle science and culture.
How do you stop and steer a bicycle? What forces keep the bicycle from falling over?
Learn the science behind bad hair days, and learn how hair increases its length when humidity increases, making curly hair frizz and straight hair go limp.
A multifaceted exhibition that explored genetics and the Human Genome Project from a variety of perspectives from April 8 to September 4, 1995.