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In Liberty Science Center's Communication exhibition, guests will encounter a variety of written and recorded communication, from cuneiform to Braille and graffiti.
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What does a person's appearance really tell you? In RACE: Are We So Different?, a traveling exhibition now showing at Liberty Science Center, guests learn that traits such as skin color have little to do with other important human characteristics such as fingerprints, height and blood type.
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In Skyscraper! Achievement and Impact, guests will learn about the science, technology and planning behind these amazing structures.
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The sneezing blue nose in our Infection Connection exhibition helps teach kids how germs can spread from person to person. It has already become one of the most popular features in our new building.
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Infection Connection helps guests understand that we share the world with microbes, and the decisions we make help contribute to the rise and fall of disease.
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The alligator snapping turtle is just one of the strange-looking animals that guests will encounter in Eat and Be Eaten.
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Guests visiting Eat and Be Eaten will learn about the cycle of life from a wide-ranging collection of live animals - both predator and prey.
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Amid all the new additions, we saved room for some old favorites, such as the fossil-studded Rock Climbing Wall. Look for it in our Wonder Why gallery.
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Guests can get their hands dirty and learn how to change the course of a river at Our Hudson Home.
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See if a building that you design can withstand an earthquake in Skyscraper! Achievement and Impact.
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Performing their own experiments in Infection Connection will help guests learn about preventing the spread of disease.
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Guests can add their handprints to our digital "cave wall" in the Communication exhibition, emulating one of the oldest forms of human communication.
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Like all of our new exhibitions, Communciation is full of hands-on interactive elements to help guests learn - and have a good time doing it.
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The "Walk the Steel" exhibit in Skyscraper! teaches guests about the remarkable skills needed by ironworkers and the daily dangers they face.
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There are many opportunities for visitors to share their own thoughts about race and relationships in the traveling exhibitions RACE: Are We So Different?, now showing at Liberty Science Center.
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A panoramic view of Liberty Science Center's new lobby, known as Science Court, including the entrance to our largest new exhibition, Skyscraper! Achievement and Impact. Photographer: Dave Janosz.
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A panoramic view of Liberty Science Center's new wing and entrance. Photographer: Dave Janosz
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Our ideas about race -- and the words that we use to label people -- change even over the course of a few decades. The people in this photograph are wearing T-shirts that show how they would have been identified by the U.S. Census at different points over the past 200 years. The photo is part of the traveling exhibition RACE: Are We So Different?, now showing at Liberty Science Center.
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