A cheeseburger experiment turns into a surprisingly dramatic test of what makes melted cheese smooth, thick, and pourable.

Indonesia's Anak Krakatau erupted in early July, shooting towering columns of ash hundreds of metres into the sky, but a ...

Orange County fire officials and the FBI are on the scene of a hazmat situation Tuesday in same Irvine neighborhood searched ...

A rare eruption in the Indian Ocean let researchers capture one of the clearest views yet of a seafloor spreading event ...

Dive into the astounding world of sound and explore the loudest noise ever recorded - the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. From ...

An interdisciplinary team from Florida State University's Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science has uncovered ...

A newly discovered underwater volcanic eruption north of Papua New Guinea is unfolding in one of the world's most poorly mapped ocean basins. Satellites have spotted steam plumes, ash, thermal ...

The spread of the ocean floor, as tectonic plates spread apart, is known but hard to observe. Scientists have now documented ...

Scientists observed a mid-ocean ridge widen in real time, recording several metres of sea-floor motion and huge lava outflows ...

Three scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey had the opportunity to fly into the summit of Hawaii's most active volcano ...

The ocean floor is constantly growing, forged by magmas and stretched by tectonic forces at mid-ocean ridges (MORs). Yet despite their importance, these submarine boundaries remain among the hardest ...