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

Sit down for compost tea with a visionary cultivator.

What makes Antarctica inhospitable to life also makes it ideal for astronomy.

Human corpses decay alfresco, all in the name of forensic science.

Learn about the inner workings of a cell through this interactive exhibit.

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

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

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.

The untold stories behind scientific discovery.

Create your own fish mummy using common baking soda!

“No way! I lost a lot of cows last year!” is not something you’d expect to hear on the floor of a science museum.

Tour a hydroponic greenhouse in frozen Antarctica.

Students become Internet researchers and learn about NASA satellites.

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

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.

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

Make a fantastic toy that shimmers when you shake it.

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

Is it just a glorified plank with roller skate wheels on it? Or is it a highly engineered device through which kids have reclaimed the urban landscape, bringing creativity and style back to the sterile asphalt spaces of sprawl?

Listen to internationally recognized authorities on human thought and behavior, including Temple Grandin and Paul Ekman.

The fruit flies in this exhibit show just a few of the mutations that occur in natural fruit fly populations.

The Instruments Aboard the Mars Exploration Rover

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

Discover the secret colors hidden in black ink. With a paper towel, a black marker, and a cup of water, create a rainbow of colors while exploring capillary action and chromatography.

Do hot water and cold water mix?

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

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

Sperimenta interattivamente l'illusione del muro del caffé.

Think you have a lot in common with a kiwi fruit? Genetically speaking, you do.

Learn about scale and structure with eight great activities designed for the elementary classroom.

What happens when two hockey players collide? Try our hockey collision calculator!

Search a geological map of Ethiopia for fossils.

The lure of Terra Australis Incognita begins with the Ancient Greeks and ends with modern cruise ships.

Lisa Miller is a mechanic and teacher who shows her auto shop students how to use their listening skills to fix cars.

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

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

Recycle a potato chip can into a simple camera.

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.

Just how much fat is in ground beef? You may be surprised.

Interact with the Cafe Wall Illusion.

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

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