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

How many objects can you follow at once?

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anatomy of a skateboard, skateboard tricks, types of skateboarding, physics glossary.

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

Lisa Miller is a mechanic and teacher who shows her auto shop students how to use their listening skills to fix cars.

Walk in the shoes of Dean Hudson. As a visually impaired person, Dean depends on audio clues to navigate through the world.

What's really going on when you bake? Find out.

Use this handy conversion calculator to convert between the many units found in recipes.

What do you really know about what you see?

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

Study ultraviolet radiation from the sun and other sources using UV beads.

Join us as we investigate the sweet world of sugar.

Decorate your desktop with some of the most intriguing pattern and perception images from the Exploratorium.

Activities and workshops for playful invention, investigation, and collaboration

Get down and dirty with the surprising science of soil.

An introduction to the concepts and theories that contribute to contemporary complexity research.

Imaginative Designs in Digital and Analog Clothing

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

Rube Goldberg-inspired cause and effect contraptions using everyday materials and found objects.

Most paper airplanes are flat, but these paper hoops can really fly!

Explore the Traits of Life exhibition space using this 360˚ panorama.

Watch tiny blue, green, and white molds grow on leftover food.

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

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

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

What is a gear ratio? And how do gears help make the bicycle so efficient?

An incubator for innovative public space ideas, projects and news

In 2009, the ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) Partners hosted a national symposium held at the Exploratorium to discuss the effects of climate change on the planet. You can watch archived webcasts of the symposium.

See why these beautiful flowers have attracted generations of admirers.

Activities and workshops for playful invention, investigation, and collaboration

Make your own refracting telescope from a pair of reading glasses.

Darkening polar skies often bring beautiful light displays.

Listen to internationally recognized authorities on human thought and behavior, including Temple Grandin and Paul Ekman.

Activities and History

An evening of wine, food, and talk.

Learn about the giants of the polar seas.

What do you really know about what you see?

How are creative investigations sparked? What does a state of inspiration feel like? Can inspiration be transmitted from person to person? Join us for an audio slideshow series that explores the fascinating world of how we work creatively.

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