
Surf the Data for Perfect Waves
by Mary Miller • February 1, 2018
Big wave secrets are all in the data.
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Dive into websites, activities, apps, and more.
An introduction to spectra and to the space-based telescopes. The site includes a number of hands-on activities.
by Mary Miller • February 1, 2018
Big wave secrets are all in the data.
Check out top mountain biker, Ruthie Matthes. Learn about frames and materials from a custom bike maker. Try interactive javascripts that calculate braking distances and energy consumption.
Learn about common techniques for peering inside the body in order to diagnose disease and injury.
Think you have a lot in common with a kiwi fruit? Genetically speaking, you do.
View the night sky from any latitude on earth, and take a guided tour of the Hawaiian star families.
A physicist, a scientist, and a musician experiment with sound, music, and acoustics using instruments both real and found.
Wind tubes are a playful and inventive way to explore the effect that moving air has on objects.
Visit Las Cuevas Research Station in Belize and the Natural History Museum in London to learn about the study of biodiversity.
Jimmy Kuehnle’s inflated artworks engage his audiences with the unexpected.
Make a spinning disc called a stroboscope, which lets you create your own animated cartoon.
Check out ColorFest, a two-month extravaganza celebrating color at the museum from July 1 to September 5.
by Eileen Campbell • December 29, 2016
Read our picks for the Unsung Science stories of 2016.
A collection of auditory illusions found in indigenous folk practices, popular music, and scientific research.
Four times over 100-plus years, major initiatives have brought together scientists from around the globe to collaboratively study the poles.
Take an animated tour of Antarctica's variety of ice formations, which give it a beauty unrivaled anywhere on Earth.
Have you ever wondered what makes blue cheese blue, or why some cheeses are hard and others soft?
Lisa Miller is a mechanic and teacher who shows her auto shop students how to use their listening skills to fix cars.
See the JPL "sandbox" where robotic rovers are tested.
Close your eyes and listen to tell where the paddle is when you play this all-listening version of the classic game Pong.
Explore the evolution of music and dance with Alonzo King and Bernie Krause.
Artist Bob Miller's Light Walk at the Exploratorium will change the way you look at light, shadow, and images.
The Maya were expert sky-watchers, careful observers of the motions of the celestial bodies...
Make a simple rocket and a rocket launcher, and watch a demonstration of how the finished rocket will fly.
Find out how this extreme sport is governed by the principles of momentum, gravity, friction, and centripetal force. Learn skateboarding history, technology, and more!
The nearly ice-free Dry Valleys are an Antarctic anomaly, and Earth's closest equivalent to Mars.
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.