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A mirror and a lens mounted on top project a live image of the outside view into a darkened room.
Where: This exhibit is not currently on view.
Each of the chairs in this series has dimensions that are twice that of the smaller chair. But doubling the dimension of a chair doesn’t double its strength.
From one view, this room looks like a normal room, but people and things inside may seem quite strange.
Where: This exhibit is not currently on view.
A motor is connected to a block of concrete via a simple system of gears. The final gear will make one revolution into the concrete once every 13.7 billion years, yet the machine whirs uninterrupted.
Where: Crossroads: Getting Started
Research-grade microscopes reveal interior worlds of living, changing cells.
Where: Gallery 4: Living Systems