
Turning Light into Sound with Wayne Grim and the Kronos Quartet
by Liz Ball • July 13, 2017
Join the Kronos Quartet for a performance like no other.
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Dive into websites, activities, apps, and more.
Join us as we visit the Hubble Space Telescope, and see what's happening at Mission Control.
A physicist, a scientist, and a musician experiment with sound, music, and acoustics using instruments both real and found.
See a map of recent earthquakes in the United States, and learn why earthquakes happen so frequently on the West Coast.
by Liz Ball • July 13, 2017
Join the Kronos Quartet for a performance like no other.
Design and build a musical instrument that responds to changing light.
by Rob Rothfarb • February 11, 2011
Visitors experienced the sights and smells of "Meta Cookie', an augmented reality installation at After Dark: Get Surreal.
Tinker with electricity using common objects: batteries, lights, buzzers, motors, switches, etc.
There's more to polar ice than just frozen water. Learn about the many varieties of ice found at the poles and how and where they form.
Put on a mask and see how we communicate with our bodies as well as with our faces and words.
Explore the places, people, tools, and ideas behind the origins of matter, the universe, and life itself.
Watch contemporary musicians and sound artists perform and discuss their work.
Join us as we visit the Hubble Space Telescope, and see what's happening at Mission Control.
Make a simple musical instrument that sounds like a swarm of buzzing bees when you spin it around.
Your CRT screen may appear to wiggle when you give it the raspberry, but the only thing wiggling is you.
Visit Las Cuevas Research Station in Belize and the Natural History Museum in London to learn about the study of biodiversity.
Four downloadable workshop guides for teaching introductory genetics in a museum or other informal education setting.
Think you have a lot in common with a kiwi fruit? Genetically speaking, you do.
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.
Learn about the rovers that have been exploring Mars since 2004, and view the amazing images they've taken.
See a map of recent earthquakes in the United States, and learn why earthquakes happen so frequently on the West Coast.
by Adam Esposito • June 29, 2015
Jupiter and Venus pass each other in sky this week.
This year marks 50 years since the first human set foot on the moon. Relive the memories with NASA scientist Brian H. Day—take a look back at each of the Apollo landing sites, examine why NASA chose each one, and reflect on what they learned at each site.
"Mac Town," the first stop for many scientists in Antarctica, is the same as any town–only different.
This clay building activity shows that when you make things bigger, weight increases faster than strength.
Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!