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Scientists Fired Lasers at Charles Darwin's Priceless Specimens. Here's Why.


Rows of preserved specimen jars from Charles Darwin's iconic Galapagos voyage have sat, unopened, in the archives of London's Natural History Museum (NHM) for 200 years.

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