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found in the Natural History Museum in London has been invaluable in their scientific work usually hidden

instead of milk, more familiar, half-eaten pizza and remove the remains, there are scorpions floating in tubes, boxes of iridescent beetles and crickets are still clinging to the blade of grass.

The refrigerator of a molecular biology laboratory is not a traditional museum exhibition, but on the night of Friday, the Natural History Museum in London famous science has discovered, an event in which scientists and samples emerged from corners and put on the screen.

the molecular laboratory, with its creepy-crawly refrigerator, scientists at the museum shows the evolution of the deletion of the DNA of an insect. Controlled labs white surfaces and machines were buzzing in stark contrast to the sculptures and stained glass windows that characterize the rest of the building. Wasp in a small glass bottle was slowly dissolved by enzymes, while in the bottom of test tubes of DNA other floating clouds.

The whole process seemed amazingly complicated, but Alex Aitken, the laboratory director, assured me that if I could cook then you could extract DNA.

Explanations

Aitken reminded me that the Museum of Natural History is more than just a tourist attraction. For one night only found in science, "science stations" in the aisles lined showing cutting-edge research is going on behind the scenes.

station in paleontology, under the gaze of a giant sloth bear, volunteers took turns to clean a mass of white rock powder. Zoology at the station, where the tables were laden with jars of pickled specimens, I was drawn irresistibly to a crab with gloves. The animal had gray hairs covering their claws and are called the Chinese mitten crab, an invasive species whose spread Museum scientists are monitoring.

are also testing whether the species is safe to eat. If so, then the sale of crabs for food could help prevent the rivers take over the UK.

my clumsiness continued in the gardens of the museum in which he managed to set foot dismembered. It is also located on the immaculate lawn of the museum was a rubber arm and the hand he had a torso covered in blood profusely. Scientists from the live scene had certainly tried to make the area look really scary. Head partially submerged in the turf, even had tangled hair.

petri dish in hand, I joined the other white adapted to dig into the numbers. Once I had successfully captured some have taken to the forensic anthropologists hope to explain how the time of death could be estimated from the wriggling insect.
assess the stages of larval development has proven to be one of the highlights of the night. Another was the "fight club science," where scientists struggling to win votes on controversial issues. The debate entitled "Should we save the giant panda" the public was convinced that animals should be allowed to the wood danger.