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Plan Your Visit
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Ticketed Exhibitions
Davis Family Butterfly Vivarium
Invisible Worlds: Immersive Experience
The Secret World of Elephants
Blue Whales: Giant Screen Film
Worlds Beyond Earth: Space Show
Included Exhibitions
Origami Holiday Tree
What's in a Name?
Garden of Green
Extinct and Endangered: Insects in Peril
Learn & Teach
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Teen Programs
Higher Education
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Evaluation, Research, & Policy
Master of Arts in Teaching
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OLogy: The Science Website for Kids
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Anthropology
Invertebrate Zoology
Paleontology
Physical Sciences
Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Vertebrate Zoology
Herpetology
Ichthyology
Mammalogy
Ornithology
Richard Gilder Graduate School
Hayden Planetarium
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
Institute for Comparative Genomics
Southwestern Research Station
Research Library
Darwin Manuscripts Project
Microscopy and Imaging Facility
Science Conservation
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How does heat escape from the churning engine that keeps our planet running? Through volcanoes.
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Space Volcanoes - Shelf Life 360
Awe-inspiring extraterrestrial eruptions.
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Shelf Life 18: Under the Volcanoes
What makes one volcano more explosive than another?
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Making Rocks
Some volcanoes slowly ooze magma while others explode with immense power. Yet all volcanic eruptions begin in the magma chamber....
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Find a Vent
Climb aboard a virtual expedition in search of a deep sea vent.
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Volcanoes Under the Sea
The longest volcano chain in the world is the 80,000-kilometer-long mid-ocean ridge system, where new ocean crust is formed and the...
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Mapping Mt. Rainier
Beneath the glacier-clad summit of Mt. Rainier lies an active volcano, which has more than once produced enough molten rock to bury...
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Plates on the Move
Volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes... Examine how plate tectonics affect our world!
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Volcanism
Volcanoes provide an efficient way for solid planets and moons to shed their internal heat.
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Volcanoes: Magma Rising
What causes volcanoes to erupt? How do scientists study them? Explore one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in history.
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Volcanoes
Some volcanoes explode with the force of an atomic bomb. Others spill rivers of gently flowing lava.
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Recipes for Eruption
Museum researchers use different combinations of heat, pressure, and rocks to uncover the science behind volcanic eruptions.
April 21, 2015
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Expedition to a Modern Pompeii
The upcoming exhibition Nature’s Fury features chilling artifacts from a volcanic eruption that destroyed a bustling Caribbean city...
November 6, 2014
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