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

Walk in the shoes of Dean Hudson. As a visually impaired person, Dean depends on audio clues to navigate through the world.

Read stories and see footage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

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

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

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

See astounding musical instruments made by Bart Hopkin

Tiny shrimplike crustaceans, krill play a critical roll in many marine food webs, even feeding huge baleen whales.

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

Make your own refracting telescope from a pair of reading glasses.

Zoom into a fossil chimp tooth.

Making waves.

Imagine yourself in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean. You've been sailing for weeks, and there's no land in sight. Do you know where you are? Do you know which way to go?

Saving seeds helps preserve the culture of Native American farmers in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

Capture the sound of your beautiful voice by singing into a wok.

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.

Learn to throw a curveball, a slider, or even a screwball by throwing a Styrofoam ball.

Bring movie, TV, and cartoon images to life.

Learn how changes in genes over generations created the modern goldfish.

Study ultraviolet radiation from the sun and other sources using UV beads.

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

Discover the difference between taste and smell.

Close your eyes and listen to tell where the paddle is when you play this all-listening version of the classic game Pong.

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

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.

This new version of an old game will bend your brain.

Examine words from different languages and determine which two languages are the most closely related.

A drop of water makes a fine magnifying lens.

Do hot water and cold water mix?

Bring movie, TV, and cartoon images to life.

Have you ever wondered what makes blue cheese blue, or why some cheeses are hard and others soft?

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

The earth moves in mysterious ways

A fish-eye view of the brain

Where do all the different languages in the world come from?

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

Humpbacks, minkes, and orcas are often sighted in the nutrient-rich Antarctic waters.

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

Our collaboration with Public Radio International's The World. With Public Radio International, we're taking technology news beyond the headlines.

Grow spikes of crystals in the sun.

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.

What happens to meat when you cook it?

Technological developments have changed how we view Earth. See LandSat images and learn more about our home planet.