Unlike a regular camera view, the thermal perspective makes the temperature of the flow far more visible, highlighting the ...

Effusive volcanoes take a very different approach. Their main act is the outpouring of lava flows. While these can absolutely be destructive, their progress is usually slow enough to allow for ...

In May 1980, Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted catastrophically. It resulted in one of the largest natural disasters in American history, claiming 57 lives and even darkening the sun. It ...

Mud volcanoes are often pictured as dramatic geological phenomena featuring the sudden eruption of large volumes of fiery mud ...

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple ...

It was a journey to the center of the Earth, if only for the briefest of moments. But rather than tunneling thousands of ...

An enigmatic feature of frozen soils can be explained in part by non-Newtonian fluid physics. Enter the Oobleck.

Japan’s largest volcano lies hidden. It can be found, if you know where to look, by starting from the southern island of Kyushu. Find the active volcano Sakurajima. (We will come back to it later.