Pettyjohn Cave is known for narrow spaces, but nothing prepares you for the crawl into the Volcano Room. The air gets thinner ...

New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...

Ah, turkey. The star of the show this week. When you sit down for the big dinner Thursday, you might want to listen to the diners at the kids’ table. They have interesting takes on just how to get and ...

Sometimes, the Merriam-Webster word of the year is predictable. And 2025 was one of those years.

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped ...

SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. COVID-19 has the potential to ebb and flow with the seasons, but because it's a ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, one of the most active in the world, is about to erupt again, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The current series of eruption sat Kilauea have been ...

It’s also an artsy community with historic buildings, like the Kilauea Lodge and Restaurant, originally built in 1938 as a YMCA camp. Volcano Village, the town’s busiest center, is home to charming ...

Geothermal energy accounts for only 0.4 percent of the U.S.’s energy output, but by using a technique known as “superhot rocks,” that number could skyrocket. This process uses fracking technology to ...

A long-quiet volcano in Ethiopia spewed ash nine miles into the sky on Sunday, marking the first known major eruption from this volcano for more than 12,000 years. Under-studied and situated in ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

The ash cloud drifted over northern India, causing some flight delays and cancellations, and continued toward China. By Lynsey Chutel A volcano that erupted in Ethiopia spewed an ash cloud that ...