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

Find out how a cochlear implant helped one man regain the ability to listen.

Explore the scientific, historical, and cultural context behind a new opera about the first atomic bomb test.

The brightest buds get all the glory – but they're not just for show.

Journey into Chaco Canyon, where ancient people built monuments to the cosmos. Journey to Chichén Itzá, where the Maya built monuments to the sun.

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

Are there meat by-products in makeup? Can you guess where you might find them?

Get a taste of how the earth's plates move.

Not all bubbles are made with soap!

With just mud, paper and an egg, you can grow colonies of multi-hued microbes!

Explore the science of music with us, through these online exhibits, movies, and questions.

the Fudge House on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco!

A physicist, a scientist, and a musician experiment with sound, music, and acoustics using instruments both real and found.

Specialized cells have a common origin. What sets them on separate paths?

Find out how a cochlear implant helped one man regain the ability to listen.

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

With just mud, paper and an egg, you can grow colonies of multi-hued microbes!

San Francisco was born in gold dust, and nearly died in rubble and ashes.

Why do wintergreen LifeSavers spark in the dark?

Dig into the succulent science of making things grow.

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

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

Identify misalignments in your body by looking at your feet.

You can measure your reaction time with just a yardstick and some help from a friend.

Join the Exploratorium on the playa in Black Rock Desert and explore the science of pyrotechnics, flight, dust devils, rainbows, and more.

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?

Amino acids and corn syrup combine to create new aromas.

Learn how eyes work, and watch a cow's eye dissection. Then follow step-by-step instructions to do a cow's eye dissection yourself.

A fish-eye view of the brain

Grow spikes of crystals in the sun.

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

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

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