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

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

Take a virtual journey to the frog capital of the world, Rayne, Louisiana.

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

Rub a balloon on your head, then watch a soda can race across the floor!

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

Take a peek at the colorful world of plant sex.

An evening of wine, food, and talk.

This 2011 conference, hosted at the Exploratorium, explored the role aesthetic inquiry in public interdisciplinary environments.

The Physics of Skateboarding Tricks

Activities and workshops for playful invention, investigation, and collaboration

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.

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

Just how much fat is in ground beef? You may be surprised.

Your CRT screen may appear to wiggle when you give it the raspberry, but the only thing wiggling is you.

Explore webcasts, stories, dispatches, photos, and articles of total and annular solar eclipses and transits.

Read stories and see footage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

This 2011 conference, hosted at the Exploratorium, explored the role aesthetic inquiry in public interdisciplinary environments.

Heat-trapping gases play a major role in polar climate change.

Explore the science behind food and cooking with recipes, activities, and archived Webcasts.

Get messy with ExploraGoo and Outrageous Ooze! Get airborne with the Fabulous Foam Flyer! Get loud with the Water Gong or Straw Oboe!

An introduction to spectra and to the space-based telescopes. The site includes a number of hands-on activities.

These unique – and uniquely beautiful – seal species spend their lives amid the sea ice

An incubator for innovative public space ideas, projects and news

High energy prices got you down? Discover how pickles can ease your troubles.

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

I movimenti dei tuoi occhi faranno brillare questo disegno.

Explore the ideas behind Science of Sharing with these Activities.

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

Try these low-cost, teacher-tested activities for the classroom and the curious.

Can making up stories improve your memory? Try it!

The Antarctic food web is the simplest on the planet, and krill are at its hub.

Learn about the giants of the polar seas.