 Blood Learn about the body's vital defense force. ARTICLE 
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Peter's Savage Garden Explore the deadly beautiful world of carnivorous plants. VIDEO
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Penguins Living along the continental coastline of Antarctica are the emperors and the Adélies. ARTICLE
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A Cell's Fate Specialized cells have a common origin. What sets them on separate paths? ARTICLE
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Turning Garbage into Gold Seasoned gardeners depend on a community of bacteria, worms, and insects to get the most out of their plantings. Find out why. ARTICLE
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Three Ways to Make a New Plant Learn how grafting, hybridizing, and transgenics have transformed cultivation. ARTICLE
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Cell Explorer Learn about the inner workings of a cell through this interactive exhibit. INTERACTIVE
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Extracting DNA from Neanderthal Bones Explore the process of extracting DNA from Neanderthal bones. PHOTO ESSAY
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Frog Tracker Listen to different frog calls and make a frog chorus. INTERACTIVE
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Everybody Gets Lunch Sit down for compost tea with a visionary cultivator. VIDEO
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Mutant Fruit Flies The fruit flies in this exhibit show just a few of the mutations that occur in natural fruit fly populations.
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Krill Tiny shrimplike crustaceans, krill play a critical roll in many marine food webs, even feeding huge baleen whales. ARTICLE
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Arctic Whales Learn about the giants of the polar seas. ARTICLE
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Fruitful DNA Extraction Think you have a lot in common with a kiwi fruit? Genetically speaking, you do. HANDS-ON
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Stem Cells See living stem cells and find out why they are the "stem" from which all other cells develop. ARTICLE
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Energy from Death Learn how living things get energy from dead ones in this interactive exhibit. INTERACTIVE
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 Microscope Imaging Station What do stem cells, fruit flies, and zebrafish look like under a microscope? The Microscope Imaging Station creates high-resolution images and movies of the microscopic world using research-grade microscopes.
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 Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way?
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 Origins Explore the places, people, tools, and ideas behind the origins of matter, the universe, and life itself.
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 Unwinding DNA: Life at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory The untold stories behind scientific discovery.
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 Cow's Eye Dissection Learn how eyes work, and watch a cow's eye dissection. Then follow step-by-step instructions to do a cow's eye dissection yourself.
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 Science of Gardening Dig into the succulent science of making things grow.
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 From Jungle to Lab: The Study of Life's Complexity Visit Las Cuevas Research Station in Belize and the Natural History Museum in London to learn about the study of biodiversity.
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 Extemophiles in Kamchatka Follow scientists looking for life in the hot springs of the Russian Far East.
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 Traits of Life What are the essential elements of life? How can you distinguish between the living and nonliving world? What traits of life do all organisms share?
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 Frogs Explore articles and interactives and listen to the calls of amazing, adaptable frogs.
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Astrobiology: The Search for Life Learn about the search for life elsewhere in the universe.
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The DNA Files: Hands-on Workshops Four downloadable workshop guides for teaching introductory genetics in a museum or other informal education setting.
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