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Learn valuable graphing skills and learn about ozone chemistry.

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.

Why do road bikes have thin tires, while mountain bikes have fat tires?

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

Discover the difference between taste and smell.

Do hot water and cold water mix?

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Living along the continental coastline of Antarctica are the emperors and the Adélies.

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

Do hot water and cold water mix?

Touch supercooled water drops with an ice crystal and trigger them to freeze instantly.

Show yourself how a pinch of salt can take the bitter taste away.

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Commemorate the 1906 quake! Rummage through live earthquake data, subductive science, and more. Learn about earthquakes in Faultline: Seismic Science at the Epicenter

Does the sun rise in the east? Not exactly.

Search a geological map of Ethiopia for fossils.

Learn how Hubble Telescope scientists put together those lovely pictures.

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

This clay building activity shows that when you make things bigger, weight increases faster than strength.

Skilled listeners share their secrets.

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.

A brief history of Chichen Itza.

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

Peter Whitehead is an instrument builder, performer, and composer.

By looking at satellite and climate data that's available on the Web, surfers can follow storms into shore and be there in time to catch the biggest waves.

High energy prices got you down? Discover how pickles can ease your troubles.

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

Use dominoes to model a nerve cell's transmission of a signal

Grow your own stalagmites in luscious colors.

Explore the process of extracting DNA from Neanderthal bones.

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

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

Music, fear, sadness all can cause goosebumps. But why?

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

Listen to bird songs and try to figure out which are songs, which are companion calls, and which are alarms.