Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you thought you knew!

There has been an marked increase in shallow deformation and seismicity centered beneath the current vent region in Halemaʻumaʻu. Patterns of inflation and earthquakes suggest that a shallow east-west ...

Kīlauea remains relatively quiet today. This Volcano Watch article explains activity related to the intrusion of a shallow dike last night. https://www.usgs.gov ...

What nobody knew then was that the haze is an accumulation of particles from meteorites. “Shooting stars” that burn up in the ...

The overuse of certain names has revealed the scale of fake experts on academic publishing platforms, say researchers.

They may not be the greatest directors, but many great directors base their reputations on two or three great films. (And a few simply make films that I don't like.) But this is a list of those ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the summer of 1991, Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines, self-destructed. The eruption started on June 12, and three days later it ...

The volcano, sitting in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, first erupted on Saturday, spewing lava and booming sounds so loud they could reportedly be heard hundreds of kilometres away. Two ...

A volcanic eruption in Indonesia on Sunday has forced the cancellation of all flights at the capital city's airport as volcanic ash drifted across the western parts of the country. No casualties were ...

The Hunga Tonga eruption may have triggered a surprising chemical reaction that destroyed some of the methane released into the atmosphere. Scientists say the discovery could reshape estimates of ...

Watch: Lava fountain and ash cloud as Indonesia volcano erupts Around 170,000 passengers have been left stranded after a volcanic eruption forced Indonesian authorities to temporarily suspend ...