In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA's Multidisciplinary Studies Building, UTSA students engage in meticulous choreography around a glowing furnace, melting rocks to produce lava. The task ...

Scientists recreate magma and water reactions in a lab to understand explosive volcanic eruptions and improve hazard predictions.

Tephra is any type and size of rock fragment that is forcibly ejected from a volcano and travels an airborne path during an eruption. Examples include ash, bombs, scoria, and shards of volcanic glass ...

HILO, Hawaii (KHON2) — The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) on the Big Island announced on Thursday, Jan. 7, the opening of a new lab that will help scientists study volcanic samples known as tephra ...

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory “lavas” working with our partners at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo (UHH), and for Valentine’s Day we wanted to highlight some of the things we appreciate ...

Kilen Glaze never imagined he would ever step inside an active volcano or kick up a some red dust on the surface of Mars. But that’s exactly what the Sherwood Elementary fifth-grader experienced in ...

Editor’s note: The Lab Report is a weekly series in The Badger Herald’s print edition where we take a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom The WiscAr ...

Smithsonian geologist Liz Cottrell of the National Museum of Natural History shows us the tools she uses to learn more about what's buried beneath the Earth's crust. Usage conditions apply ...

PORTO (Lusa) - The Capelinhos volcano in the Azores is "an open book" with the potential to become a "laboratory" for the exploration of the volcanic system on Mars, according to a former director of ...

Predicting when a volcano might erupt is very difficult. Some volcanoes erupt almost constantly, such as Kīlauea on Hawaii, but others may have gaps of hundreds of thousands of years between eruptions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kilen Glaze never imagined he would ever step inside an active volcano or kick up a some red dust on the surface of Mars. But that ...