5 fast facts about volcanoes Volcanic ash is made of fragments of rocks ... These eruptions can flood millions of square miles with lava that's over a mile thick. Luckily, there are no large ...

For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

Michelle Trachtenberg may have played Buffy's younger sibling on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," but it's clear that to her former castmates, she was everybody's little sis. Her sudden passing at the age ...

ProtoSnap is just the latest in a growing list of AI breakthroughs reshaping how historians read the past. In 2023, a team of ...

As a national program manager, he rewrote the Severe Local Storms, Flash Flood and Spotter Training ... addition to being the nation’s first Volcanic Ash Program Manager. As such, he led the ...

Super-eruptions are rare. That is probably a good thing, even for Tallis. Too many things can go wrong for us in a supereruption. If you need a reminder, a super-eruption is often defined as a ...

In 2023, a team of computer scientists and papyrologists achieved what once seemed impossible: they extracted readable Greek text from a papyrus scroll that had been buried under volcanic ash for ...

Explosive lava and ash flows created the next stratum, the San Juan Formation. Though the rocks surrounding Telluride aren’t glamorously igneous — no shiny obsidian or floating pumice — the skyline is ...

“More often than not, we have explosive eruptions that fragment magma and shoot ash, you know, 50,000 feet into the atmosphere,” said Matt Haney, who's in charge of the Alaska Volcano Observator ...

Researchers predict the most likely outcome of the unrest at Mt. Spurr is “one or more explosive events” that could last as long as a few hours and produce ash clouds carried for hundreds of miles.