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

See how TV screens create images from many tiny colored dots of light.

Visit Las Cuevas Research Station in Belize and the Natural History Museum in London to learn about the study of biodiversity.

Spin the bottle to see beautiful swirling shapes

Can you cover your kitchen tracks?

Explore an interactive map.

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

Grow spikes of crystals in the sun.

See the tiny disk of Mercury slowly travel across the face of the sun in this rare event.

A multifaceted exhibition that explored genetics and the Human Genome Project from a variety of perspectives from April 8 to September 4, 1995.

Build a mirrored tube that lets you see around corners and over walls.

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

Interact with the Cafe Wall Illusion.

Find out why wind resistance is a big drag for bicyclists, and use our calculator to estimate drag for yourself.

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

Your worn shoe soles reveal whether your feet roll excessively from side to side as you walk.

View the full eclipse visible from China in 2008.

Activities and History

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

Use the Science Journal mobile app to investigate movement.

Using baking soda and vinegar, you can pop a plastic bag with the power of fizz.

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

A trash-filled median blossoms into a community oasis.

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

Explore the places, people, tools, and ideas behind the origins of matter, the universe, and life itself.

This stuff can't make up its mind -- is it a liquid or a solid?

In this activity, you'll learn about "tempering" -- a delicate process of melting and cooling chocolate.

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

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

Recycle a potato chip can into a simple camera.

Imaginative Designs in Digital and Analog Clothing

Most paper airplanes are flat, but these paper hoops can really fly!

Scientists dig under the surface for clues to past climate

APE was a four-year Exploratorium project to explore strategies and tactics to shift the role of visitors from passive recipient of information to active participant in the exhibit experience.

Amino acids and corn syrup combine to create new aromas.

How do you stop and steer a bicycle? What forces keep the bicycle from falling over?

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

This stuff can't make up its mind -- is it a liquid or a solid?

A window on regeneration

A model for heart development

Before there were clocks, people used shadows to tell time!

A Scribbling Machine is a motorized contraption that moves in unusual ways and leaves a mark to trace it's path.

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?

Your CRT screen may appear to wiggle when you give it the raspberry, but the only thing wiggling is you.

Meet the robotic explorers that landed on Mars in 2004, and check out their tools and instruments.

Learn how to find the histories and origins of words.