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

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

Discover the difference between taste and smell.

Si mira fijamente este punto por algunos momentos, éste desaparece.

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

Learn how Hubble Telescope scientists put together those lovely pictures.

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.

What does it take to block gamma radiation?

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.

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

Listen to the story of Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.

View the night sky from any latitude on earth, and take a guided tour of the Hawaiian star families.

Explore light, shadow, and motion using a variety of simple materials and light sources.

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.

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

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

Visit Las Cuevas Research Station in Belize and the Natural History Museum in London to learn about the study of biodiversity.

Explore gluten, the substance that gives bread its structure.

Make a spinning disc called a stroboscope, which lets you create your own animated cartoon.

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

Check out ColorFest, a two-month extravaganza celebrating color at the museum from July 1 to September 5.

A collection of auditory illusions found in indigenous folk practices, popular music, and scientific research.

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

A little physics can go a long way on that shortboard.

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.

We Moved! Follow Us to San Francisco’s Historic Waterfront

Sit down for compost tea with a visionary cultivator.

We Moved! Follow Us to San Francisco’s Historic Waterfront

Pickling is the art of manipulating the microbial garden in foods.

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.