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

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For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way?

Will the "real" South Pole please stand up?

Why do teens take risks, and what do our notions of risk tell us about the dangers of growing up?

Who lives in the Arctic, and how did they get there?

Professional development resources for teacher educators.

Learn about the rovers that have been exploring Mars since 2004, and view the amazing images they've taken.

Scientific knowledge and a few chemical concoctions can get you through a Bad Hair Day.

Use live data to make your own wave predictions, wherever you are.

Build a bridge from a piece of paper and explore ways of making it stronger.

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

Explore the process of extracting DNA from Neanderthal bones.

How good is your friend's driving? You be the seismometer, and find out whether your pal is a smooth sailor or a mover and shaker.

Learn about common techniques for peering inside the body in order to diagnose disease and injury.

Where is the Center of the Universe? Here, there, and everywhere.

The Antarctic food web is the simplest on the planet, and krill are at its hub.

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

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

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

Share some secret sounds with a friend.

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

They're a menace to ships, but life thrives in these frozen oases.

A model for heart development

Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!

An introduction to spectra and to the space-based telescopes. The site includes a number of hands-on activities.

Search a geological map of Ethiopia for fossils.

Explore the important engineering concepts of yield strength, ultimate strength, and elasticity as they relate to building a better bicycle.

Decorate your white walls with rainbow colors!

How can a microscopic organism lift several pounds of dough? Find out with this activity.

Take an animated tour of Antarctica's variety of ice formations, which give it a beauty unrivaled anywhere on Earth.

Meet David Goodsell, a molecular biologist and artist who finds beauty in the molecules of cells.

Imaginative Designs in Digital and Analog Clothing

What does it take to block gamma radiation?

Map sunspots and build an apparatus for safe sunspot viewing!

Rub a balloon on your head, then watch a soda can race across the floor!

Journey into Chaco Canyon, where ancient people built monuments to the cosmos. Journey to Chichén Itzá, where the Maya built monuments to the sun.

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

Make a fantastic toy that shimmers when you shake it.

Make a photographic image without a camera!

What happens to sandy or fine-grained soils when an earthquake shakes them up? Try this simple activity to find out.

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

The brightest buds get all the glory – but they're not just for show.