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

It's easy to fold a sheet of paper in half. But can you fold a sheet of paper in half ten times?

Download a PDF file with step-by-step instructions for doing your own cow's eye dissection.

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

Teeth are the most common fossils found. What can they tell us?

Why do road bikes have thin tires, while mountain bikes have fat tires?

Come with us to Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico, which is rich with thousand-year-old artifacts of the ancient Pueblo culture and contains sites that appear to have been astronomical observatories.

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.

What do you really know about what you see?

Find links relevant to research at the poles.

What happens to meat when you cook it?

A model for heart development

Commemorate the 1906 quake! Rummage through live earthquake data, subductive science, and more. Learn about earthquakes in Faultline: Seismic Science at the Epicenter

Find out what's inside a floppy disk.

An evening of wine, food, and talk.

Modelos plásticos huecos del aparato vocal humano convierten el graznido de un pato en sonidos de vocales.

Learn how living things get energy from dead ones in this interactive exhibit.

Is there life on Mars? Our best evidence so far is a baked-potato-sized chunk of rock found in Antarctica.

Vsit a quirky kitchen where you can compose music with ordinary (and not-so-ordinary) objects.

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

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

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

Scientific knowledge and a few chemical concoctions can get you through a Bad Hair Day.

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

How does drafting help a cyclist? What is skin friction?

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

Meet a kinetic sculptor.

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

Get down and dirty with the surprising science of soil.

Four downloadable workshop guides for teaching introductory genetics in a museum or other informal education setting.

Play. Invent. Explore. PIE is a group of educators who share a playful and inventive approach to teaching with technology.

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

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

Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!

Cuatro exposiciones lo suficientemente pequeñas para caber en tarjetas postales.

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

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

Build a stripped-down motor, a simple, easy-to-make version of the electric motors found in toys, tools, and appliances.

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

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

Cells behaving badly

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

Explore the places, people, tools, and ideas behind the origins of matter, the universe, and life itself.