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Robotic Guide in Paris Crypt
Welcoming exhibit visitors is a robotic guide in a re-created catacomb from 1400's Paris. Resembling a physician of that era, the robotic figure wears a beaked mask thought to protect people from the bubonic plague, which killed about 56 million Europeans from 1340 to 1420. |
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Aztec Figurine
Two children contemplate the replica of a figurine from before 750 A.D. that reveals evidence of disfiguring diseases that attacked the peoples of what is now Mexico. |
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Egyptian tomb
A museum-goer examines the replica of an Egyptian sarcophagus. Behind her a photo of the unwrapped mummy of Ramses V shows pockmarks from the smallpox virus that attacked and probably killed Egypt's ruler around 1151 B.C. |
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Iron Lung
An actual children's iron lung, one of only two remaining in the U.S., offers these two exhibit-goers a look at one of the respiration devices that helped save the lives of many polio survivors in the 1940s and '50s. |
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Robotic Microbe in the Microbial Universe
Two youths study a giant robotic bacteriophage in the Microbial Universe. Animation in this and another robotic microbe simulates how these microscopic organisms invade other microbes in real life. |
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Floating, 3-D Hologram of Penicillin
A young boy shows how visitors can swipe their hands through the floating 3-D image of a penicillin fungus. In addition to the freestanding fungus, eight other holograms present microbes such as Ebola and E. coli as colorful, 3-D sculptures suspended in space. |
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Simulated Electron Microscope
Images from an electron microscope offer a young visitor a rare look at real microbes such as the bacterium that causes pneumonia. |
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Race a Bug
Two teenagers maneuver mobile microbes through simulated arteries in 3-D animation to discover how some microbes propel themselves. |
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Microbe Quiz Show
A young exhibit-goer tries his hand at the Microbe Quiz Show. Hosted by Microbe Man, the exhibit's friendly cartoon guide, the interactive true-false quiz tests participants' newfound knowledge. |
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Helpful Microbes in 'Pete's Place' Kitchen
Opening the oven reveals how beneficial microbes do good deeds in the kitchen. The oven door triggers a humorous audio sequence about good-guy microbes like the ones that help bread rise.
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Gobble De Goop
The Gobble De Goop video game challenges a teen-age player and his friend to guide munching microbes in successfully gobbling up an oil spill. |
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Virtual Invaders
In a virtual-reality game, a teenage visitor appears microbe-sized as he tries to block the images of cartoon-like viruses from invading healthy tissue. The game simulates the continuous defenses of the body's immune system against infections. |
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