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

Explore the deadly beautiful world of carnivorous plants.

Use the Science Journal mobile app to investigate the sound around you.

Learn how to use physics to distinguish between raw eggs and hard-cooked eggs.

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

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

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

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

A multifaceted exhibition that explored genetics and the Human Genome Project from a variety of perspectives from April 8 to September 4, 1995.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at activities and ideas we’re exploring.

Find out how different kinds of candy are made in the Candy-o-matic!

This series of activities explores those handiest of appendages, your hands.

fat, proteins, collagen, and more

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

The 18,000-foot Mt. Parinacota presents some fitness challenges for climbers.

Is it just a glorified plank with roller skate wheels on it? Or is it a highly engineered device through which kids have reclaimed the urban landscape, bringing creativity and style back to the sterile asphalt spaces of sprawl?

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

The more astronomy changes, the more it stays the same. This series of images juxtaposes ancient and modern study of the celestial bodies.

In this activity, students make bridges using an oil-based modeling clay (plasticene).

Will the "real" South Pole please stand up?

A brief introduction to the land of the midnight sun.

What does it take to block gamma radiation?

A comprehensive tour through the weird and wonderful world of frogs.

From 1977 until 2003, the Exploratorium published a quarterly magazine. The Exploratorium Magazine Online is a companion to selected issues of the print magazine, providing key articles and activities and including multimedia features.

Using a spectroscope, you may see that what appears to be a single color of light is really a combination of colors called a spectrum.

Test your memory and compare it with your friends'.

Download desktop wallpaper for your computer.

Saving seeds helps preserve the culture of Native American farmers in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

Activités pour la classe élémentaire.

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

Explore our 2000 guide to the solar max, the period in the solar cycle during which the number of sunspots is greatest.

Cuatro exposiciones lo suficientemente pequeñas para caber en tarjetas postales.