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Build a mirrored tube that lets you see around corners and over walls.

Four times over 100-plus years, major initiatives have brought together scientists from around the globe to collaboratively study the poles.

Close your eyes and listen to tell where the paddle is when you play this all-listening version of the classic game Pong.

Your worn shoe soles reveal whether your feet roll excessively from side to side as you walk.

In Observance of the 50th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Making waves.

How does drafting help a cyclist? What is skin friction?

A fish-eye view of the brain

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

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

Follow scientists looking for life in the hot springs of the Russian Far East.

Get a taste of how the earth's plates move.

A naked egg is an egg without a shell. Using vinegar, you can dissolve the eggshell without breaking the membrane that contains the egg.

Make a fantastic toy that shimmers when you shake it.

How do scientists establish the age of artifacts, rocks, and settlements?

This stuff can't make up its mind -- is it a liquid or a solid?

Build a tool that lets you do estimates using your own feet.

Why is the bicycle the most efficient way to travel? Explore bicycle science and culture.

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

Meet the robotic explorers that landed on Mars in 2004, and check out their tools and instruments.

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

Recycle a potato chip can into a simple camera.

Can't decide if you're sandy or silty? Try this simple test.

Explore the scientific, historical, and cultural context behind a new opera about the first atomic bomb test.

What does it take to block gamma radiation?

What geometric shapes can you find on the playground?

In this activity, students make bridges using an oil-based modeling clay (plasticene).

Technological developments have changed how we view Earth. See LandSat images and learn more about our home planet.

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

Explore the deadly beautiful world of carnivorous plants.

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

Summertime in the Arctic is for the birds

This stuff can't make up its mind -- is it a liquid or a solid?

See if you can put these sounds back together in this sonic jigsaw puzzle.

Explore Saturn, its rings and moons, and see the latest images.

Will the "real" South Pole please stand up?

Cells behaving badly

Our reactions may be trained, but the devices that make music sound "sad" are real enough.

The 1906 earthquake jolted geologists into focusing on how and why faults break loose.

Artist Bob Miller's Light Walk at the Exploratorium will change the way you look at light, shadow, and images.

Make a paper model that helps explain the changing tides.

If you're a patient gardener, you can grow your own hybrid flowers.

Explore gluten, the substance that gives bread its structure.