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

Listen to bird songs and try to figure out which are songs, which are companion calls, and which are alarms.

Discover the difference between taste and smell.

"Mac Town," the first stop for many scientists in Antarctica, is the same as any town–only different.

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

Gather and compare real data about sunspots and solar x-ray activity.

Measure your reaction time with just a meter stick and some help from a friend.

See a map of recent earthquakes in the United States, and learn why earthquakes happen so frequently on the West Coast.

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

Listen to bird songs and try to figure out which are songs, which are companion calls, and which are alarms.

An incubator for innovative public space ideas, projects and news

What does it take to block gamma radiation?

What does it take to block gamma radiation?

Pickling is the art of manipulating the microbial garden in foods.

See how well various materials conduct electricity and use Science Journal to explore your data.

Here's how you can model the use of X rays for medical examinations with some sand and a piece of screen.

Uncover the everyday origins of some extraordinary instruments.

See how well various materials conduct electricity and use Science Journal to explore your data.

What's in that cup of coffee anyway? Find out about the history and chemistry of coffee.

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

Create your own fish mummy using common baking soda!

Investigate the interior angles of polygons with your feet.

You can make a light painting with a light source, a darkened room, and a digital camera.

One man's journey into blindness

The lure of Terra Australis Incognita begins with the Ancient Greeks and ends with modern cruise ships.

Why is baseball so popular in Japan?

Explore graphing, angles, and storytelling by building a seesaw for your smartphone.

The only continent without any countries or government . . .

Learn how to bridge the digital generation gap

What makes Antarctica inhospitable to life also makes it ideal for astronomy.

Explore the ancient knowledge of the Maya, who built sophisticated monuments to the sun.

See how TV screens create images from many tiny colored dots of light.

For accuracy, it's best to use both a candy thermometer and the cold water test when making candy.

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.

Close your eyes – and open your ears.

Wind tubes are a playful and inventive way to explore the effect that moving air has on objects.

Close your eyes and listen to tell where the paddle is when you play this all-listening version of the classic game Pong.

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

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.

Use dominoes to model a nerve cell's transmission of a signal

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

Scratch Film, also known as Direct Animation, is the process of drawing and scratching designs directly onto film.

What happens to a cylinder when you scale it up?

In September 2004, the Exploratorium covered a conference in the Galapagos Islands, organized by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, that considered the implications of El Niño forecasting.

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