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

Amino acids and corn syrup combine to create new aromas.

Teeth are the most common fossils found. What can they tell us?

Tour a hydroponic greenhouse in frozen Antarctica.

Sperimenta interattivamente l'illusione del muro del caffé.

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

How are emotional expressions built?

Far north in the night sky, a faint glow appears on the horizon. Green and red flames of light stretch across the sky.

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Learn about origami, make your own paper, and find out the best way to fold a paper airplane.

They're a menace to ships, but life thrives in these frozen oases.

Spin the bottle to see beautiful swirling shapes

Explore the surprising side of color.

You can make a light painting with a light source, a darkened room, and a digital camera.

Professional development resources for teacher educators.

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.

Explore graphing, angles, and storytelling by building a seesaw for your smartphone.

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Explore the elements of a scientific paper.

Grow spikes of crystals in the sun.

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

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

Realtime data, more about earthquake dynamics, and loads of other information.

A model for heart development

Join us as we crunch our way through everything from our San Francisco sourdough to Injera and Pugliese.

Find out what all that fiddling around before a concert is really about.

Pick one and guess the source

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

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

What brings archeologists and astronomers alike to this ten-mile canyon in remote New Mexico?

Sit down for compost tea with a visionary cultivator.

Meteor, meteorite, meteoroid – what's the difference?

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

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

Visit the Outdoor Exploratorium at Fort Mason to explore the science behind wind, waves, and more.

Test your memory–and learn how to improve it!

Find out why people who love birthday parties should move to Mercury.

Learn how living things get energy from dead ones in this interactive exhibit.

These tricky pictures shift and change as you look at them.

These unique – and uniquely beautiful – seal species spend their lives amid the sea ice

Do hot water and cold water mix?

"Mac Town," the first stop for many scientists in Antarctica, is the same as any town–only different.