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Humpbacks, minkes, and orcas are often sighted in the nutrient-rich Antarctic waters.

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

Learn how to tie the six knots most useful on a voyaging canoe.

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

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

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

Turn your phone into a pocket science laboratory with tools to measure light, motion, sound, and more.

Nobel Laureate Symposium

Explore the unknown world inside your brain with these fun activities.

Seasoned gardeners depend on a community of bacteria, worms, and insects to get the most out of their plantings. Find out why.

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

The 1906 earthquake jolted geologists into focusing on how and why faults break loose.

Touch supercooled water drops with an ice crystal and trigger them to freeze instantly.

Turn your phone into a pocket science laboratory with tools to measure light, motion, sound, and more.

A series of talks celebrating both the historical and contemporary dimensions of the Eames design legacy.

Make a fantastic toy that shimmers when you shake it.

Try your hand at explaining symbols both modern and ancient, and then make your own.

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

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

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

The fact and fiction behind some bizarre gardening remedies.

What can you build with 50 straws and 50 pins?

Nobel Laureate Symposium

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

If you're a patient gardener, you can grow your own hybrid flowers.

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

A model for heart development

Join us as we crunch our way through everything from our San Francisco sourdough to Injera and Pugliese.

Our reactions may be trained, but the devices that make music sound "sad" are real enough.

If you're a patient gardener, you can grow your own hybrid flowers.

Explore an interactive map.

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

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

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

A model for heart development

Stories about science, art, and human perception—from 1998. 

How do you stop and steer a bicycle? What forces keep the bicycle from falling over?

With polarized light, you can make a stained glass window without gla

Tour the Breads of the World