Extras

Wide variety of simulations and virtual labs, covering biology, chemistry, physics and more. Curated by LabXchange.

A mobile explanation/game about qubits and quantum gates. Created by Dimosthenis Michailidis.

Explore adaptations in this museum-style interactive. Build fish and see how well they survive. Created by Shedd Aquarium.

A variation of chess that includes some quantum rules. Created by Selim Akl and Ryan Kartavicius.

A game that involves optics, aiming lasers and such, loosely based on physics. Created by PlayZilla.tk.

Flash interactive that shows a visualization of the curvature of spacetime. Created by Adam Trepczynski.

Simple and pretty fluid simulation by Johann Troendle.

Learn how RNA fits together by playing this game. Created by Nova Labs.

If you’re looking to simulate the state of a qubit, and how quantum logic gates will affect that state, look no further! Created by saich08.

Confusing game about building a quantum circuit to play pong. Good luck! By kirais.

List of science games and interactives, pulled together by the SyllabusGames YouTube channel, in association with this video.

Many, many pages explaining the history of microscopes and how they work. Occasionally has some interactive simulations mixed in. Created by Michael W. Davidson.

A periodic table where you can drag various elements around, and see which ones interact with which. Created by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

Gravity simulation by the National Science & Tech Medals Foundation.

A digital simulator of Spintronics, a physical science toy that lets you build electrical circuits modeled not with wires and electricity, by physical analogs of spinning gears. Built by Upper Story.

A gravity simulator for the web. Created by apexearth.

Explore the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and how stars of various sizes evolve. Built by Jon Yardley, Stuart Lowe, Edward Gomez, Haley Gomez, and Chris North.

Simulating evolution with little avocado-blobs running to get food. Built by MinuteLabs.

A complicated puzzle game where you’re building large molecules. Created by Zachtronics.

Fun toy that shows what it would look like to have massive space objects floating over your town. Created by Daniel Wysocki and HanGyeol Suh.

Trippy game which takes place in a strange geometric world unlike our own. Two actually, one with de Sitter spacetime, and another with anti-de Sitter spacetime. Created by Zeno Rogue.

A game about evolving creatures, all the way to space if I’m not mistaken. Created by Maxis.

Classic web game about playing golf in space, having to take the gravity of various objects into account. Created by Funky Pear.

Evolving cars on a procedural racetrack. Created by Rafael Matsunaga.

An absolute classic – guide an electric charge to the goal using only other electric charges. Created by PhET.

A tool for exploring and animating electromagnetic waves. Created by András Szilágyi.

An online quantum game. Created by Rohan.

Quick simulations that shows the relativistic effects of delayed light on the images you might see. Created by Michael Burns-Kaurin.

Interesting interactive web simulations, many of which are about fluids and flow. Created by a variety of developers.

A gravitational simulator that lets you fling planets and see what happens. Created by MinuteLabs.

An approachable look at Fourier Transforms. Or, what sound waves, cool circular drawings, and jpegs have in commmon. Created by Jez Swanson.

Flash simulation of an orbit that lets you control the parameters directly, and gives graphs and data showcasing how Kepler’s Laws relate to your setup. Built by the Nebraska Astronomy Applet Program.

Collection of physics simulations, with many interactive graphs, created by H. K. Wilfred Lee.

Chemistry puzzle game about lining up molecules correctly by placing certain tiles around a factory. Built by NoNotCar.

Physical objects simulator that lets you draw and add objects to a scene, with lots of options for creativity. Created by Algoryx Simulation.

Game exploring quantum mechanics where you’re a little robot traveling along a wavefunction. Created by folks at Georgia Tech.

Various simple, short simulations of Special Relativity. Created by Alex Reinhart.

A classic flash game about cell biology, created by Phoenix00017, larsiusprime, and BGroupProduction.

Game about quantum logic gates, where you use gates to direct falling balls. Build by rsoiffer.

Fight off diseases using microbiology. Created by Molecular Jig Games.

Tic Tac Toe with quantum mechanical rules, for both web and mobile. Created by Evert.

Simulates the path of light around a black hole, and you can drag your view around. Created by Antonell.

Various small simulations about chemistry and physics, created by Nerd Island Studios.

Sim city style game about climate change. Currently only available in French, and also quite a bit out of date. But I love it. Created by Cap Sciences.

Various small astronomy simulations built by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Astronomy Department.

Very simple online oscilloscope that you can fiddle the knobs and buttons on. Created by PhysicsZone.

Given a certain layout of positive and negative electrodes, this simulator will calculate and display the resulting electric potentials and fields. Built by Nathaniel Klemm.

An old (2001) virtual life sim where the creatures have digital dna and traits are passed down accordingly. Surprisingly complex. Created by Creature Labs.

An interactive periodic table by PBS media, which includes a little mystery game to match elements to their descriptions.

Website that has tons of videos, simulations, and mathematical explanations of how to visualize relativity. Created by Ute Kraus and Corvin Zahn.

If you’re looking for a game where you design physical computer chips, this PC game is for you. Pretty complex. Created by Elorth.

Super silly game about building circuit components, but instead of electrons moving, there are little 2d physics balls. Created by NoNotCar.