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

The Instruments Aboard the Mars Exploration Rover

Uncover the everyday origins of some extraordinary instruments.

Watch old pennies turn bright and shiny right before your eyes!

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

What happens to a cylinder when you scale it up?

Learn how Hubble Telescope scientists put together those lovely pictures.

Why do teens take risks, and what do our notions of risk tell us about the dangers of growing up?

See astounding musical instruments made by Bart Hopkin

Demonstrations of electric Robo-Cars made by 22 Science Summer students.

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

Learn how to bridge the digital generation gap

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

Here are some activities that test your memory – and some things you can try to help you remember things better.

Listen to the sound of a rainstorm – anytime, anywhere.

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

Tour the Breads of the World

You can make sentences without words!

Decorate your white walls with rainbow colors!

Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!

Make a fantastic toy that shimmers when you shake it.

If you want to dig a ditch in the Arctic, you'd better bring more than a shovel.

Use printable images from our time-lapse movies to make flipbooks–handheld animations that you can make at home.

Learn about origami, make your own paper, and find out the best way to fold a paper airplane.

Zoom into a fossil chimp tooth.

Recycle some cans to make after-dinner music!

Students become Internet researchers and learn about NASA satellites.

Explore the ideas behind Science of Sharing with these Activities.

Use live data to check the weather in space, and learn how it can affect us here on earth.

This clay building activity shows that when you make things bigger, weight increases faster than strength.

See living stem cells and find out why they are the "stem" from which all other cells develop.

Complete an electrical circuit with your body and explore ways to control the flow of electricity.

Learn the science behind bad hair days, and learn how hair increases its length when humidity increases, making curly hair frizz and straight hair go limp.

Enjoy the early memories of some of the visitors to this website.

Design and build a musical instrument that responds to changing light.

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