Dig Earth Studio Lab

Play with
the planet.

Earth science makes more sense when you can do something with it. Explore deep time, change the climate system, investigate an earthquake, build a volcanic eruption and put Pangaea back together through free interactive STEM experiences.

Explore Turn enormous Earth-science ideas into something you can see.
Experiment Change the conditions and watch the planet respond.
Investigate Follow clues, test ideas and work out what happened.
Choose an experiment

What do you want
to mess with?

Each free interactive experiment focuses on a different part of Earth science — from geology and climate science to seismology, volcanology, sedimentology and plate tectonics. No science background required. Curiosity helps.

Explore · Deep time
4.6 billion years · one calendar

Your Birth in Deep Time

Compress Earth’s entire 4.6-billion-year history into one calendar year, enter your birthday and discover what the planet was like on your day in deep time.

Find your place in deep time
Experiment · Climate
Orbit · CO₂ · vegetation · clouds

The Climate Machine

Change Earth’s orbit, CO₂, vegetation and clouds, trigger volcanic aerosols, then give the climate system time to respond. Can you create an Ice Age?

Start the Climate Machine
Investigate · Seismology
P waves · S waves · triangulation

Earthquake Detective

Read P and S waves from three seismic stations, convert their arrival-time gaps into distance and use triangulation to find the hidden earthquake epicenter.

Find the earthquake
Experiment · Volcanology
Magma · gas · viscosity · pressure

Volcano Lab

Build a magma, change its silica, gas, temperature, crystals and conduit conditions, then press Erupt and discover what kind of volcanic behaviour you created.

Build an eruption
Experiment · Sedimentology
Flow · slope · grain size · deposition

Sediment Sorter

Build a sediment mix, change river flow and channel slope, then release the grains and watch gravel, sand, silt and clay take different journeys through the flume.

Run the sediment flume
Experiment · Plate tectonics
Continents · fossils · rock belts · glacial evidence

Put Pangaea Back Together

Drag and rotate the continents to rebuild the ancient supercontinent. Use matching fossils, geological belts and glacial clues to test where the pieces belong.

Rebuild Pangaea
Still under construction — in the good way. More experiments are coming to the Lab as we build them.
The idea

Less textbook.
More planet.

The Lab is where Dig Earth Studio turns Earth-science ideas into things you can actually interact with.

These are simplified teaching models, not professional scientific software. Their job is to make the important relationships visible without burying them under every complication the real planet can throw at us.