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

Learn about common techniques for peering inside the body in order to diagnose disease and injury.

Using baking soda and vinegar, you can pop a plastic bag with the power of fizz.

On March 29, 2006, a total solar eclipse occurred when the new moon moved directly between the sun and the earth. The moon’s shadow fell on the eastern tip of Brazil, sped eastward across the Atlantic, through northern Africa, across the Mediterranean, an

What do stem cells, fruit flies, and zebrafish look like under a microscope?

Most people abhor the sound of their own recorded voice. So what are these recording devices doing to our voices to make them sound so awful?

What happens to sandy or fine-grained soils when an earthquake shakes them up? Try this simple activity to find out.

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

You may be surprised at the results of this "wimpy" workout.

Learn valuable graphing skills and learn about ozone chemistry.

Produce some pretty mixed-up music with this online interactive.

The only continent without any countries or government . . .

The Science Information Infrastructure (SII) is a collaboration among teachers and scientists. The SII at the Exploratorium is developing educational resources using NASA images and datasets.

In February 2009, the Exploratorium hosted Darwin Days, a series of presentations, debates, and discussions exploring the ways scientists continue to learn from and apply their knowledge of evolutionary biology to a broad range of pursuits.

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

What's the quietest sound you can find – and how can you find it? Download listening tips.

The Physics of Skateboarding Tricks

This clay building activity shows that when you make things bigger, weight increases faster than strength.

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

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

Will the "real" South Pole please stand up?

What's the science behind a home run? Why do curveballs curve? Learn about the game from players from the S.F. Giants & Oakland A's.

Learn how grafting, hybridizing, and transgenics have transformed cultivation.

Using a simple trick of perspective, you can dress your friends in tiny cutout clothing.

What do you really know about what you see?

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

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

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

What happens to meat when you cook it?

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

Learn how sparkling wine is made, what makes it different from still wine, and where all those little bubbles come from!

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

White-coated Arctic icons, these supreme hunters are under threat

Follow our crew as they visit the Dry Valleys and hike the slopes of volcanic Mt. Erebus.

With a lens, you can bend light to make pictures of the world.

Introduce students to unique life science activities that let them work with our research-quality microscopic images and videos.

Activities and History

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