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

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

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

White-coated Arctic icons, these supreme hunters are under threat

Journey into Chaco Canyon, where ancient people built monuments to the cosmos. Journey to Chichén Itzá, where the Maya built monuments to the sun.

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

Explore the science behind food and cooking with recipes, activities, and archived Webcasts.

With polarized light, you can make a stained glass window without gla

You can measure your reaction time with just a yardstick and some help from a friend.

Share some secret sounds with a friend.

The untold stories behind scientific discovery.

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.

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

By passing the winter frozen as solid as a holiday fruit cake, the wood frog breaks all rules. Scientists hoping to preserve human organs are paying close attention.

Stand outside on a sunny day with a watch in your hand, and you can tell which way is north.

Are there meat by-products in makeup? Can you guess where you might find them?

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

An incubator for innovative public space ideas, projects and news

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

Learn about the body's vital defense force.

Discover the uncommon stories behind the most common fruits and vegetables.

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

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

Why is your shadow longer in winter than in summer? Grab a basketball and some paperclips and find out!

What kinds of candy are made and enjoyed in where you live?

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

Identify misalignments in your body by looking at your feet.

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

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

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

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

Kid-friendly explorations and experiments for curious minds.

Can you take a sip of water from a cup with your eyes closed?

Hear vocal tract models transform the squawk of a duck call into vowel sounds.

Why do I hear the bass from my neighbor's stereo, but not the treble?

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

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

The Science Information Infrastructure (SII) is a collaboration among teachers and scientists. The SII at the Exploratorium is developing educational resources using NASA images and datasets.

What can you do with a frozen water balloon? Plenty!

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

Learn about common techniques for peering inside the body in order to diagnose disease and injury.

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

Make a scale model of the Solar System and learn the REAL definition of "space."

Remote sensing allows geologists to peek under the ice – and find a big surprise.

Nobel Laureate Symposium

Are there meat by-products in makeup? Can you guess where you might find them?