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- On Exhibit
- Offering Format: Permanent Exhibit
- Blue Wing, Lower Level
- Free with Exhibit Halls admission; purchase online
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Description
Exercise your powers of perception to see what you can discover when you pay attention to your senses, and learn about ways technology can extend our reach beyond what we can perceive on our own.
Explore the world around you using sight, hearing, touch, and smell.
To supplement our own bodies' capabilities, we have developed technologies to help us extend our senses — to help us perceive things that are too fast, too small, too far away, or invisible to the naked eye.
Use an infrared camera to explore hot spots around you, track cosmic particles in a cloud chamber, or find the hidden crown in every splash of milk. See a sound wave, and identify images taken by our scanning electron microscope (SEM), which is is capable of magnifying objects up to 200,000 times.
From Egg to Chick
We use chickens as models of development because of their many similarities to humans. Scientists research the genetic basis of human development by using chicken eggs during the first few hours to days of incubation. Study chicks during incubation and as they hatch, too!
Reservation: If you would like to request a demonstration for your visit, please email presentationrequests@mos.org at least two weeks in advance; all requests are pending confirmation and subject to availability.
Photos © Larry Ralph
