A massive volcanic eruption devastated southern Japan 7,300 years ago, but new research reveals how ancient communities ...

USGS researchers found that some seafloor rocks spontaneously combusted during lab handling, revealing a potential mining ...

I subscribe to an English newspaper for learners, but lately, I've been accumulating unread articles (sigh...).Yesterday, I was diligently catching up on the unread ones.I am reading The Japan Times ...

Volcanic eruptions can be devastating. So what if we took extreme actions to prevent them? How could we drill into a volcano?

Krakatau, a volcanic island in Indonesia, killed more than 30,000 people when it erupted in 1883. One might assume that volcanic debris posed the major threat, yet many of the victims died from a ...

A combination of technical ingenuity, scientific risk-taking, and interdisciplinary collaboration has unlocked a record once thought to be lost forever. Reading time 5 minutes The Vesuvius Challenge ...

In 2024, D. Sarah Stamps’ team detected and tracked a short-lived bulge in the land around a volcano in Tanzania. In a paper published Sep. 18, Stamps identified the cause of the uplift: a million ...

In the sea between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra lies Anak Krakatau. This volcanic island emerged from the remnants of the infamous 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, which lasted for more than ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Tyler Paladino, research geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), will give the talk “Preparing for volcanic eruption hazards using operational geodesy, ...

Umama Ali spent more time as a kid arguing with his brother over who caused the most chaos in GTA Vice City than doing homework, and he’s been unapologetically hooked on games ever since. That ...

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