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 ...

A brand new island emerging off the coast of Japan offers scientists a rare opportunity to study how life begins to colonise barren land — helped by rotting bird poo and hatchling vomit. Researchers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A volcano will not send out an official invitation when it's ready to erupt, but a team of researchers suggest that scientists who listen and watch carefully may be able to pick up signs that an ...

UT San Antonio students in the HAMsTER Lab melt rocks to produce lava, a task that helps them survey the vast landscapes of the universe. In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA’s ...