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Science Experiments

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Person looking into a microscope. Caption: (Zacharias) What do you do at the lab?

Mechanical equipment with a glowing beam of blue and magenta light. Caption: I was excited, being able to build my own lasers,

Congo expedition of the American Museum of Natural History May 1909 to November 1915. Black and white photos of explorers with crocodile skulls and a map in the background. Caption: Those explorers had collected crocodile specimens

Person in a white coat working in a science lab. Caption: Researchers are making genetically modified silkworms.

School of fish swimming in a tank. Caption: Sometimes they sink like these rocks.

A small lizard.

Illustration of a child with his face turned up to the snow falling from the sky. Caption: Willie Bentley's happiest days were snowstorm days.

Long grasses and shrubs. Caption: More than 100,000 natural compounds occur in plants,

Person holding a starfish and pointing to one of the arms. Caption: It was clear something was in the water,

An illustration depicts migration from Earth to Mars.

An illustration of a space colony.

An illustration of two astronauts in a foreign planet surface.

Two people in a lab. One is pouring liquid into a beaker. Caption: So let's see what happens here.

Person crouched next to an electrical box on the bank of a river. Caption: to issue timely and accurate river forecasts and warnings

Vials and other containers in a science lab. Caption: We've taken the cells out of the muscle tissue.

Person holding a screw touching a paper clip. Caption: then this screw should be able to generate a magnetic field.

Plastic tube containing clear, pebble-like objects is attached to a larger tube. Caption: The gas is filling up a constant volume.

A vast agricultural land with varieties of plants laid in strips. Caption: It's a botanical version of Noah's Ark.

Person in a lab setting holding the body of a bird. Bird prep. Caption: about changes in species over time.

Person speaking. Caption: To de-extinct a species requires finding viable DNA,

Person speaking. Caption: that's a lot of species -- which ones do we bring back?

A diagram titled, ghost lineage, shows cars of different ages.

A photo of a bird. An inner line is drawn tracing the shape of the bird's circular head. The line extends along the beak.

People walking through a cave. Caption: And try and set your feet without dragging your shoes

Three people in a dark cave wearing headlamps. Caption: There are so many bats in here.

Large skeleton with tusks in a museum. Mastodons were around about 20 million years before mammoths. Caption: Mastodons were on Earth before mammoths,

Person gesturing towards spear-like weapons used to hunt shark. Caption: and they have multiple rows of teeth on them.

Black and white photo of a partially exposed fossil in the ground. 1900 field museum geology expedition (in which the brachiosaurus is found). Caption: It was declared the largest dinosaur known

A pile of small, furless rodents huddled together in a den lined with grass. Naked mole-rat huddle. Caption: If they're cold, they huddle together,

Woman in glasses smiles at camera. She stands in the doorway of a room lined with old bookcases that are full of books and animal statues. Caption. As long as we've had curiosity.

Person using a wooden mallet to break open a stone. Caption: About half have something in them.

A large ship floating in the water. Caption: The new ship is built by a shipyard in Washington,

Three people walking through the woods. Caption: I think back to the project quite a bit.

Cartoon character one-handed lifting a bar with weights on it. Caption: Less pull means I can lift this weight with one hand.

Teacher from the magic school bus is wearing earrings that light up and lifting a student. Caption: Want to shed some light on your experience, Keesha?

Magic school bus travelling through a tube with points of light. Caption: The inside of the wire is filled with electric charges,

Cartoon of someone pointing to a space capsule that has safely landed. Caption: They made it!

Cartoon of a girl repeated in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Caption: Go back through the prism? Sounds like a plan to me.

Students and teacher from the magic school bus. One of the students is running by. Caption: You're just in time, Ms. Frizzle.

Students from the magic school bus shrunk to small size, climbing into an open cabinet. Caption: Look -- building materials!

Students from the magic school bus stand on a dock while their teacher is in the water. Caption: Well, if you don't look, you'll never see,

Woman wrapped in a blanket. Caption: you'd have cloak that would be invisible.

A sand covered horseshoe crab. Caption: ARTHROPODS That means they have an exoskeleton,

Two people walking past a large group of horseshoe crabs. Caption: (woman) We really do have a crab line tonight.

An old globe. Caption: Scientists were coming to their own conclusions

A man dropping a ball. Caption: potential energy gets converted into kinetic energy

Illustration of a woman riding the bow of a ship and holding tulips while a throng of people stand beneath her. Caption: Some call this the first bubble economy.

Several large fish swimming in the water, as seen from the deck of a ship. Caption: Three thousand bluefins are farmed here.

Sun shining through machinery. Caption: because we get to look at something new in seismology.

Closeup of chunks of a white substance. Caption: So it's decomposing to ice plus gas.

Microscope and slide. Caption: Scientists use many tools

Computer screen showing a dry riverbed with a rushing wall of wet debris. Caption: Debris flows are masses of rock and mud and water

Person walking through stacked rows of chickens in cages. Caption: This is the age of the designer egg.

Water erupting from the ground. Caption: there's something unusual about how they work.

Illustration of a net-like structure. Protein. Mucus is a meshwork of proteins

Random objects placed on a table. Caption: Let's experiment to see what'll stick to a magnet

Cartoon of a girl and another cartoon character sitting at a table. The girl has an empty plate and the character has a plate full of hot dogs. Caption: Why didn't you get anything to eat?

Cartoon of a girl and another cartoon character holding a cardboard box. Caption: Yeah. What do you think is inside?

Cartoon character with African landscape and animals in background. Caption: Yana, oh, thank goodness you're here.

Cartoon of a girl holding a stopwatch between two aardvarks. Caption: And we'll see who sneezes the most in a minute.

Cartoon of a girl and a second character next to a gumball machine. The machine has a yellow gumball descending the chute. Caption: Yellow! Another yellow!

Elephants of various sizes in natural habitat. Caption: elephants have a big impact on their environment.

Monkey hanging from a latticework of bamboo poles. Caption: This enables primates to grab things better,

Closeup of the spines on a plant. Caption: that they develop to deter predators.

Cheetah making a sharp turn while running. Caption: so, when they're making a quick turn, they won't fall.

A group of penguins with white chests, yellow-orange throats, and black heads and backs. Caption: (Thane) Birds are found in all kinds of color, shapes, and sizes.

Person placing a clear plastic container with a thermometer in the freezer. Caption: Let's put the containers with thermometers in the freezer.