Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

With evidence increasingly showing that volcanism is active on the surface of Venus today, a team of geologists have shown ...

For the first time, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone breaking apart deep beneath the ocean, offering a ...

What people see on screen can shape what they do off it. When actors such as James Dean and Marlon Brando lit cigarettes in ...

The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the ...

How much water erupts out of Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park? For the first time, we actually know. A team of ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

Tiny crystals suggest extinct volcanoes could still grow underground, a finding that could reshape how scientists assess ...

For people living in communities in the shadow of a volcano, a long silence may give the impression that the geological beast ...

The volcanic hot spot is larger than Lake Superior, spewing eruptions six times the total energy of all of the world's power plants. Reading time 3 minutes Jupiter’s moon Io is covered in hundreds of ...

Blytheville Elementary students present volcanoes, tornado models, invisible ink and bridge designs at the Tenaris After ...

Two-dimensional maps of clinopyroxene crystals that passed through a volcano’s magma chamber display a sharp increase in ...