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Explore new social science exhibits at San Francisco’s Civic Center.

Explore the ancient knowledge of the Maya, who built sophisticated monuments to the sun.

A brief introduction to the land of the midnight sun.

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

Land of ice and people

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.

Get up close and personal with a sucrose molecule.

Learn how to bridge the digital generation gap

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.

Explore mechanical elements such as cams, levers, and linkages to create your own moving sculpture.

Map sunspots and build an apparatus for safe sunspot viewing!

Use the Science Journal mobile app to investigate the light around you.

The earth moves in mysterious ways

Where is the Center of the Universe? Here, there, and everywhere.

Can a gum wrapper have a story? Discover just how important and meaningful an object can be.

Students become Internet researchers and learn about NASA satellites.

The Exploratorium is taking it outside to explore natural and human-made phenomena in and around San Francisco. Look for new episodes twice each month.

Discover how researchers study climate change and examine the latest scientific data.

Learn about the body's vital defense force.

For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way?

Follow along with expedition leader Bob Ballard and his crew on the exploration vessel Nautilus as they search for hydrothermal vents, underwater volcanoes, and ancient shipwrecks.

Bring movie, TV, and cartoon images to life.

Tour a hydroponic greenhouse in frozen Antarctica.

An artist paints his childhood home from memory.

Explore the mysterious interactions between light and geography through the eyes and works of artists Charles Ross and James Turrell.

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

Can you cover your kitchen tracks?

Imaginative Designs in Digital and Analog Clothing

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

The untold stories behind scientific discovery.

What happens to meat when you cook it?

Nobel Laureate Symposium

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

A comprehensive tour through the weird and wonderful world of frogs.

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

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