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Vsit a quirky kitchen where you can compose music with ordinary (and not-so-ordinary) objects.
What's the difference between white meat and dark meat? Which animals have which and why?
Learn how some vibrant seniors exercise their minds, and find out what you can do to help your own memory.
From 1977 until 2003, the Exploratorium published a quarterly magazine. The Exploratorium Magazine Online is a companion to selected issues of the print magazine, providing key articles and activities and including multimedia features.
Explore the ideas behind Science of Sharing with these Activities.
The Maya were expert sky-watchers, careful observers of the motions of the celestial bodies...
Get in the loop with Greg Brown's improvisational piece Dynamic Feedback Loops.
Explore the idiosyncrasies of strandbeest motion as one traverses the beach.
Make a simple musical instrument that sounds like a swarm of buzzing bees when you spin it around.
The three most densely populated cities on the planet where seismologists expect major earthquakes are San Francisco, Tokyo, and Istanbul. Find out why the effects in each city will be very different.
From May 20 to June 5 1997, we presented a webcast series exploring the art and science of severe storm visualization.
Watch this timelapse video to see a zebrafish develop from a single cell into an embryo
Is there life on Mars? Our best evidence so far is a baked-potato-sized chunk of rock found in Antarctica.
Find out about bicycle brakes and balance, and calculate your stopping distance on a bicycle.
Far north in the night sky, a faint glow appears on the horizon. Green and red flames of light stretch across the sky.
Meet Matt Smith, an automata artist showcased at the Curious Contraptions exhibition.
Learn the science behind bad hair days, and learn how hair increases its length when humidity increases, making curly hair frizz and straight hair go limp.
Listen to internationally recognized authorities on human thought and behavior, including Temple Grandin and Paul Ekman.
An introduction to spectra and to the space-based telescopes. The site includes a number of hands-on activities.
The lure of Terra Australis Incognita begins with the Ancient Greeks and ends with modern cruise ships.
Rube Goldberg-inspired cause and effect contraptions using everyday materials and found objects.
How do you stop and steer a bicycle? What forces keep the bicycle from falling over?
Close your eyes and listen to tell where the paddle is when you play this all-listening version of the classic game Pong.
anatomy of a skateboard, skateboard tricks, types of skateboarding, physics glossary.