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Demonstrations of electric Robo-Cars made by 22 Science Summer students.

The Maya were expert sky-watchers, careful observers of the motions of the celestial bodies...

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.

Want to understand how to predict when the good waves are coming to your shore? It helps to start with the basics behind the formation of ocean waves.

Can a gum wrapper have a story? Discover just how important and meaningful an object can be.

Scientists dig under the surface for clues to past climate

Learn about bike gears using thread spools and a rubber band.

Can you trust your own memory? Find out with this activity.

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

Learn how you too can enjoy our activities in your kitchen, garage, classroom, and community.

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.

Make amazing architecture with candy and toothpicks

Find out how proteins make muscles work in this original Exploratorium poster, illustrated by David Goodsell.

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

Make a tool that lets you measure how tall a building is or how high a rocket flies.

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

Meteor, meteorite, meteoroid – what's the difference?

A model for heart development

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

Hear audio clips of the ambient sounds of the rain forest at night near Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

The frozen worlds of the Arctic and Antarctica

Identify misalignments in your body by looking at your feet.

Hear audio clips of the ambient sounds of the rain forest at night near Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

A series of talks celebrating both the historical and contemporary dimensions of the Eames design legacy.

La famosa modelo de Leonardo es usada en un interesante experimento de percepci�_n.

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

The only continent without any countries or government . . .

See if you can put these sounds back together in this sonic jigsaw puzzle.

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.

What can you build with 50 straws and 50 pins?

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

Learn how some vibrant seniors exercise their minds, and find out what you can do to help your own memory.

With a lens, you can bend light to make pictures of the world.

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

anatomy of a skateboard, skateboard tricks, types of skateboarding, physics glossary.

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.

Design and build a musical instrument that responds to changing light.

See a map of recent earthquakes in the United States, and learn why earthquakes happen so frequently on the West Coast.

Explore the deadly beautiful world of carnivorous plants.

Your thumb and index finger can help you test a steak's degree of doneness.

Learn how grafting, hybridizing, and transgenics have transformed cultivation.

In 2009, the ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) Partners hosted a national symposium held at the Exploratorium to discuss the effects of climate change on the planet. You can watch archived webcasts of the symposium.

Try your hand at explaining symbols both modern and ancient, and then make your own.

Explore the ideas behind Science of Sharing with these Activities.