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Scratch Film, also known as Direct Animation, is the process of drawing and scratching designs directly onto film.
Where are you in infinity? Try the Infinity Room.
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.
Meet Paul Spooner, an automata artist showcased at Curious Contraptions.
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.
By looking at satellite and climate data that's available on the Web, surfers can follow storms into shore and be there in time to catch the biggest waves.
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.
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.
Go into the studio with some of the automata artists from our Curious Contraptions exhibition.
See a map of recent earthquakes in the United States, and learn why earthquakes happen so frequently on the West Coast.
See for yourself how the tilt of the earth's axis results in what we experience as the seasons.
For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way?
By passing the winter frozen as solid as a holiday fruit cake, the wood frog breaks all rules. Scientists hoping to preserve human organs are paying close attention.
See links relevant to the themes presented in the Traits of Life exhibition.
Get mesmerized by choreographer Alonzo King and soundscape artist Bernie Krause.
When you pick up a baseball, it immediately suggests its purpose: to be thrown fast and with considerable accuracy.
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.
Come with us to Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico, which is rich with thousand-year-old artifacts of the ancient Pueblo culture and contains sites that appear to have been astronomical observatories.
Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!
The Maya were expert sky-watchers, careful observers of the motions of the celestial bodies...
Watch ancient text revealed and read for the first time in a thousand years!
The three most densely populated cities on the planet where seismologists expect major earthquakes are San Francisco, Tokyo, and Istanbul. Find out why the effects in each city will be very different.
Most people abhor the sound of their own recorded voice. So what are these recording devices doing to our voices to make them sound so awful?
Use printable images from our time-lapse movies to make flipbooks–handheld animations that you can make at home.
Listen to bird songs and try to figure out which are songs, which are companion calls, and which are alarms.