Cut the sides of the small cup into four equal parts. Remove the base to create four curved pieces that will be the blades of the wind generator. Use hot glue to attach two craft sticks together at ...

Experience the Exploratorium. Let your curiosity roam free through hundreds of exhibits in our six spacious indoor and outdoor galleries at Pier 15, San Francisco.

The distribution of the mass of an object determines the position of its center of gravity, its angular momentum, and your ability to balance it. Place a lump of clay about the size of your fist ...

Build a paper-pencil-pin phonograph. In this classic activity, make a record player out of simple materials and listen to your favorite vinyl LP—no outlet required. Starting in one corner, roll the ...

Dark-colored materials both absorb and emit energy more readily than light-colored materials. Using a card or strip made of temperature-sensitive liquid crystal material, you can monitor temperature ...

Make a simple mini-motor. A coil of wire becomes an electromagnet when current passes through it. The electromagnet interacts with a permanent magnet, causing the coil to spin. Voilà! You’ve created ...

Throw one hundred coins, remove all those that come up tails, place them in a pile, repeat—you've got yourself a hands-on model for radioactive decay. The piles graphically show the meaning of the ...

The pneumatic tire and the chain drive, followed by the development of gears, revolutionized bicycling in the later 1800s. In the last fifteen years, there has been a revolution of sorts in the ...

One of the most exciting exercises I ever did as a kid was to make a scale model of the Solar System. Most of the pictures in my books made the distance between planets seem small and easy to travel.

Global Climate Change Explorer Keeping an Eye on Our Changing Planet Scientists have been studying the relationship between global climate and carbon in the atmosphere for over a century, with a ...

Join us in exploring different ways to combine code with everyday materials as tools for creative expression! The Tinkering Studio is a Key Collaborator with the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT ...

Yeast also produces alcohol as it feeds, which is why it is an important ingredient in making beer. In 1857, Louis Pasteur discovered that yeast is a living organism whose activity causes fermentation ...