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Use homemade conductive and resistant play-doh to build electronic sculptures that light up, move, and make sounds. Anyone who has ever tasted play-doh knows that it’s a salty substance. The salt ...

A thin window of soap creates an ever-shifting array of colors. Soap film hits the big time at this exhibit, featuring a giant square soap bubble the size of a picture window. The cascading colors you ...

Strange things can happen when your brain gets confused. Some objects or figures are “ambiguous,” providing visual input that your brain can interpret in more than one way. In this Snack, you’ll ...

You’ve probably seen an ice skater spinning on the tip of one skate suddenly start to spin dramatically faster. A diver or gymnast may also suddenly flip or twist much faster. This speeded-up rotation ...

Exhibits invite hands-on exploration; we encourage touching, testing, and tinkering! At the Exploratorium, you’ll see no shushing security guards—just our outgoing facilitators. Look for staff in ...

Change the atmosphere to change the water below. Create a carbon dioxide–rich atmosphere in a cup and watch how it changes the water beneath it. This model of ocean-atmosphere interaction shows how ...

A square wheel can roll smoothly—if the "road" is the right shape. A square wheel can roll smoothly—if the "road" is the right shape. A smooth ride on square wheels—amazing, no? This works because as ...

Martin Lauber Founder and Managing Partner, 19York Alison Mauzé Philanthropist Mary Hope “MH” McQuiston Vice President, Autodesk Saul Perlmutter Professor, University of California, Berkeley Vijay ...

Up close, Posavec’s artwork is a colorful collection of symbols: cyan clouds, magenta lips, yellow suns, black cats, and more. From afar, the experience is very different—walk back a ways and you’ll ...