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Geologist Elizabeth Cottrell gestures with her hands while sitting at a table talking to two students.

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Juan Rodriguez holding a Giant panda.
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A large poster coming out of a printer being grabbed by two hands
Do-It-Yourself Exhibits: Free, Print-On-Demand Exhibition Toolkits
Drawing of skeleton of Megatherium cuvieri
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Meteorite on table

Meteorites: Messengers From Outer Space

Science Literacy Resources
Old, lined notebook open to script-style notes and prints of brownish fruit-like shapes outlined in pen

Digitizing Nature – Field Books to Fossils

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Asteroid headed towards Earth at the end of the Cretaceous.

Mass Extinction of Large Dinosaurs and More

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Aerial view of an ash plume rising from Mount Cleveland volcano, which has snow on its upper slopes.

Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics

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An Island Fox standing on a gravel path next to a bush. The fox has a grey face and rump with a reddish brown body.

Island Biodiversity Past to Future

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Mummified bird inside an oblong ceramic tube.

Mummies and Mummification

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Cell phone back has been removed and held between two hands.

Cellphone Science

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Remains of Jane found in Jamestown, Va. Image shows bones in the ground with a trowel for scale.

Bones and Forensic Anthropology

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Closeup view of stained teeth of skeleton

Bones and Environmental Health

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Powder moving away from the source

Modeling and Measuring Volcanic Eruptions

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Two hands cupped to hold soil

Minerals and Microbes

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Brilliant mix of shapes colors like stained glass of a thin section of Antarctic meteorite.

Antarctic Meteorites and Mars

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