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

In celebration of Albert Einstein's work in 1905, science laboratories and museum around the world (including the Exploratorium) participated in a twelve-hour webcast that explored Einstein's influence on current physics research.

Explore the mysterious interactions between light and geography through the eyes and works of artists Charles Ross and James Turrell.

Darkening polar skies often bring beautiful light displays.

Learn about the giants of the polar seas.

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

From May 20 to June 5 1997, we presented a webcast series exploring the art and science of severe storm visualization.

Your brain is always looking for blank spaces and filling them in. Sometimes, your brain leaps to the wrong conclusion. Then you get a surprise!

Scientists dig under the surface for clues to past climate

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.

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

Imagine yourself in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean. You've been sailing for weeks, and there's no land in sight. Do you know where you are? Do you know which way to go?

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

Take an animated tour of Antarctica's variety of ice formations, which give it a beauty unrivaled anywhere on Earth.

Your guide to the Northern and Southern Lights (also in 'Observatory')

Cells behaving badly

Activities and History

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

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

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

Find links relevant to Mars and space exploration.

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

fat, proteins, collagen, and more

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

Darkening polar skies often bring beautiful light displays.

Dig into the succulent science of making things grow.

Can you trust your own memory? Find out with this activity.

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

Art/science teams explore the underlying systems that give the San Francisco Bay Area its unique character.

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

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

How has imagery changed the way we look at our bodies—over time and in different cultures?

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

Listen to the sound of a rainstorm – anytime, anywhere.

How good is your friend's driving? You be the seismometer, and find out whether your pal is a smooth sailor or a mover and shaker.

Join us as we investigate the sweet world of sugar.

Make a simple rocket and a rocket launcher, and watch a demonstration of how the finished rocket will fly.

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

Grow your own stalagmites in luscious colors.

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

See the tiny disk of Mercury slowly travel across the face of the sun in this rare event.

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.

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