A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption in 12,000 years. The volcano, called Hayli ...

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"While no human lives and livestock have been lost so far, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their ...

A groundbreaking discovery is changing the way scientists understand volcanic eruptions.

A new study explains why even gas-rich, supposedly explosive volcanoes sometimes erupt quietly instead of blowing apart.

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles ...

The physics of java and lava are actually quite similar, at least when it comes to bubbles, according to a surprising study.

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was ...

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