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

Take a peek at the colorful world of plant sex.

Why do teens take risks, and what do our notions of risk tell us about the dangers of growing up?

Get down and dirty with the surprising science of soil.

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

How can something as light as air slow down a hit?

What do you really know about what you see?

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

Geometry Playground will change the way you think about geometry. This exhibition engages your hands, brain, and body in playful investigations of this most visible branch of math.

Investigate actual images of the Martian surface taken by the rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

Staff member Vivian Altmann presents the "Snack" Water-Bottle Membranophone." Make some noise with simple materials.

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

Meet a kinetic sculptor.

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

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.

Activities and workshops for playful invention, investigation, and collaboration

A model for heart development

Meet David Goodsell, a molecular biologist and artist who finds beauty in the molecules of cells.

Learn how Hubble Telescope scientists put together those lovely pictures.

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

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.

Watch ancient text revealed and read for the first time in a thousand years!

Can you cover your kitchen tracks?

Recycle a potato chip can into a simple camera.

Follow along with expedition leader Bob Ballard and his crew on the exploration vessel Nautilus as they search for hydrothermal vents, underwater volcanoes, and ancient shipwrecks.

Find out how a cochlear implant helped one man regain the ability to listen.

The more astronomy changes, the more it stays the same. This series of images juxtaposes ancient and modern study of the celestial bodies.

Stories about science, art, and human perception—from 1998. 

Ever wonder what you might weigh on Mars or the moon? Here's your chance to find out.

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

Explore the surrounding sounds that everyday objects make. Build a noise contraption from these objects, then add a PicoCricket to automate your contraption. Finally, add a light sensor and program your sound automata to "play" when triggered by light.

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.

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

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

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?

Learn about the rovers that have been exploring Mars since 2004, and view the amazing images they've taken.

A little physics can go a long way on that shortboard.

A model for heart development

Students become Internet researchers and learn about NASA satellites.

What does it take to block gamma radiation?

Hold a paper airplane contest and discover which plane flies the best.

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

On Saturday, May 6th, 2000 we hosted a live panel discussion and webcast to explore the amazing phenomena of Star Trek.

What is a gear ratio? And how do gears help make the bicycle so efficient?

Use this handy conversion calculator to convert between the many units found in recipes.

Map sunspots and build an apparatus for safe sunspot viewing!