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

Episodic lava fountaining is a rare volcanic behavior in which repeated, hours-long bursts of molten lava and gas are spewed ...

Turn cardboard scraps into a glowing lighthouse and an erupting volcano—easy DIY recycled crafts that spark creativity and ...

Roman writer Pliny the Younger left behind the only firsthand account of Mount Vesuvius’ eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, a disaster that buried Pompeii and killed his uncle, Pliny the Elder. His ...

Deep beneath Japan’s mostly submerged Kikai caldera, scientists have discovered a vast magma reservoir that appears to be filling again. The volcano produced the largest eruption of the Holocene 7,300 ...

Far beneath the ocean near Japan, scientists have discovered that the magma system linked to the most powerful eruption of the Holocene is slowly rebuilding. By using seismic imaging, researchers ...

When a massive environmental disaster strikes, do societies simply collapse and disappear? Or do people find a way to adapt, ...

Last month, a startup called Endurance Energy sailed 300 miles off the coast of Oregon to test something new: deploying ...

Rare sonar mapping—conducted before and after an undersea volcano erupted off the coast of Tonga in 2022—has uncovered the unique reasons for its deadly tsunami. Reading time 3 minutes Every single ...

Returning to the same spot in orbit numerous times over several months, NISAR documented the ongoing lava flow from a volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Like tendrils on a vine, lava spreads out from ...

If there’s an organ that exemplifies the slogan, “teamwork to make the dream work,” it’s arguably the kidneys. To be clear, you can live with one. But if you have two kidneys, they work as a tag team.

Update (3/3/26): This piece has been updated to include additional examples. Media figures in right-leaning spaces are bickering about President Donald Trump’s war on Iran. The strikes so far have ...