When Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai erupted, it unleashed the most powerful volcanic blast recorded in the modern era since ...

Ash from ancient eruptions may have driven cooling on Earth by fertilizing oceans, boosting algal blooms, and pulling carbon ...

The underground laboratory in Nevada where the U.S. conducts nuclear subcritical experiments is riddled with faults.

Ian McEwan’s recent novel, What We Can Know, is set in a semi-underwater Britain in the year 2119. A few decades on from a ...

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on replication in ...

A volcanic formation known as Pele’s hair is produced when air-filled magma is stretched, according to a new study by a team of scientists and glass artists.

What is a super eruption and how did they create the geology of Yellowstone? Where is the world's largest, most explosive, and most unusual volcano? It's Yellowstone National Park. The Yellowstone ...

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Hawaii Island’s Kilauea volcano began erupting on March 10, spewing rock fragments as large as footballs, threatening nearby communities and closing nearby highways. "Vigorous fountaining has started, ...

Over nine hours, Kīlauea released 16 million cubic yards of lava and sent a cloud of ash beyond 30,000 feet The Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted on Tuesday in a nine-hour ...

The fragile-looking filaments of cooled lava known as Pele’s hair can form when pockets of bubble-rich lava pull apart rapidly, experiments suggest 1. Among all the ways that molten rock can solidify ...