Volcanoes have enthralled and terrified humans for centuries. Today, researchers are trying to uncover the secret “ingredients” behind dangerous eruptions. Expeditions to Mt. Vesuvius—one of the world’s best-known volcanoes—and Alaska’s Mt. Saint Augustine provide specimens that can be compared to materials synthesized in the lab. Understanding what makes one volcano’s magma so much more explosive than another may one day help us avoid volcanic disasters.
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Episode 1: 33 Million Things
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Episode 2: Turtles and Taxonomy
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Episode 3: Six Ways to Prepare a Coelacanth
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Episode 4: Skull of the Olinguito
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Episode 5: How To Time Travel To a Star
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Episode 6: The Tiniest Fossils
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Episode 7: The Language Detectives
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Episode 11: Green Grow the Salamanders
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360 Episode: Fossil Hunting in the Gobi
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Episode 14: Into the Island of Bats
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360 Episode: Shamans of Siberia
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Episode 15: The Guts and Glory of Object Conservation
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Episode 16: Tales From the Cryptic Species
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Episode 17: Nabokov’s Butterflies 360
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