Behind the Curtain

Welcome to the Backstage

Two tracks: exhibits still being built and ones that are live. Find the problem, prove it — or help polish what we already shipped.

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Discovery of the Elements

From shiny rocks in rivers to atoms built in particle accelerators — six eras of elemental discovery, quiz-driven and story-rich.

Known flaw: missing orbital trajectory visualization

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In Progress

Ant Supercolonies

Fire ants spanning continents. Argentine ants forming trillion-member empires. Explore the strange world of cooperating colonies.

Known flaw: ants not receiving food — visible starvation behavior

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Coming Soon

Lunar Lander

Real physics simulation of a lunar lander. Thrust, gravity, fuel management. Can you land this thing without becoming a crater?

Known flaw: camera drift on descent

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LIVE

These are live. Found something that could be better? Or spotted an error?

Live

Artemis: Back to the Moon

The uncrewed lunar gateway, the SLS core stage, and the technology making the next moonwalk possible.

Live

Cosmic Microwave Background

The afterglow of the Big Bang — a snapshot of the infant universe from 380,000 years after time began.

Live

Polymorphism

How the same material — the same atoms — can arrange themselves into radically different crystal structures.

Live

Antimatter

Every particle has a mirror twin — same mass, opposite charge. Explore what happens when matter meets its mirror.

Live

Conway's Game of Life

Four rules, infinite patterns. A cellular automaton that proves complexity can emerge from simplicity.

Live

Nature's Recyclers

Earthworms, fungi, bacteria, dung beetles — the unsexy work that keeps every ecosystem alive.

Live

The Magic of the Invisible Push

Magnetism, gravity, friction — invisible forces shaping everything, understood through hands-on experiments.

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