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

What goes on under the ground during an earthquake? Use a Slinky to model the various seismic waves that make the earth tremble.

A comprehensive tour through the weird and wonderful world of frogs.

There are about 500 dispatches from scientists working in the Arctic and Antarctica, along with original videos, photos, webcasts, and articles.

Can you tell the difference between human and nonhuman embryos?

Get up close and personal with a sucrose molecule.

Learn how eyes work, and watch a cow's eye dissection. Then follow step-by-step instructions to do a cow's eye dissection yourself.

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

Introduce students to unique life science activities that let them work with our research-quality microscopic images and videos.

Learn about the body's vital defense force.

How many pennies will your bridge hold?

Find out why people who love birthday parties should move to Mercury.

Watch tiny blue, green, and white molds grow on leftover food.

Learn how sparkling wine is made, what makes it different from still wine, and where all those little bubbles come from!

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

Si mira fijamente este punto por algunos momentos, éste desaparece.

What can you do with a frozen water balloon? Plenty!

Check out ColorFest, a two-month extravaganza celebrating color at the museum from July 1 to September 5.

Take a virtual journey to the frog capital of the world, Rayne, Louisiana.

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

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.

An incubator for innovative public space ideas, projects and news

Seasoned gardeners depend on a community of bacteria, worms, and insects to get the most out of their plantings. Find out why.

What's in that cup of coffee anyway? Find out about the history and chemistry of coffee.

Explore the mysterious interactions between light and geography through the eyes and works of artists Charles Ross and James Turrell.

Make amazing architecture with candy and toothpicks

Get messy with ExploraGoo and Outrageous Ooze! Get airborne with the Fabulous Foam Flyer! Get loud with the Water Gong or Straw Oboe!

If you're a patient gardener, you can grow your own hybrid flowers.

Complete an electrical circuit with your body and explore ways to control the flow of electricity.

Build cantilevers from bamboo garden poles and drinking straws and discover the importance of scale.

You can make sentences without words!

Cuatro exposiciones lo suficientemente pequeñas para caber en tarjetas postales.

The only continent without any countries or government . . .

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.

Listen in on conversations with Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, and others in Speaking of Music Rewind.

A downloadable series of graphics from our Faultline website gives a snapshot of seismic science.

Pickling is the art of manipulating the microbial garden in foods.

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!

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

Rube Goldberg-inspired cause and effect contraptions using everyday materials and found objects.

Visit an organic egg farm, and see the science behind raising those eggs.

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

High energy prices got you down? Discover how pickles can ease your troubles.