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

Alyssa Radakovich, Frank Yang and colleagues identify around 200 potential quinones in burned plant material, advancing ...

Superconductivity, a phenomenon in which electricity flows without resistance, is considered the core of quantum computers ...

A young man caught indoors during the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius left behind one of archaeology's strangest remains: a ...

In the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, a young man lay in bed as the world around him erupted into chaos and death. It was AD 79, and the volcano had unleashed its fury, burying the Roman towns of Pompeii ...

The archaeologists behind the video believe the man covered his head with a bowl to protect himself from volcanic debris.

Project description: Pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) are clouds of ash and rock that sweep down volcanoes during eruptions at high speed. They are the major hazard at many active volcanoes and ...

Some 350,000 years ago, the center of New Zealand's North Island appeared much different than the mountainous, scrub-covered landscape it is today. Amid a glacial period, temperatures were colder and ...

Archaeologists used a combination of advanced CT scans and 3D digital reconstruction to identify one of the Pompeii victims who died in 79 CE during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius as most likely ...

In the summer of 1991, Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines, self-destructed. The eruption started on June 12, and three days later it culminated in a tremendous explosion. By the time pyroclastic ...

7,300 years ago, the Kikai Caldera produced the largest volcanic event of the Holocene. The Akahoya eruption expelled 160 cubic kilometers of rock, 32 times the volume of the 1991 Pinatubo eruption.