The classic baking soda and vinegar volcano experiment, popularized as a hands-on STEM activity for children, simulates an erupting volcano using everyday household items to demonstrate acid-base ...

The team behind "Jerk," a novel tool that predicted eruptions with 92% accuracy for a French volcano, discusses its work and implications.

Those scientists saved countless lives, but their forecast was more of an educated guess than it might have appeared. It was ...

Mount Paektu, a mythic, active volcano on the border between North Korea and China, is almost the epitome of a scientific ...

When the Black Death swept through Europe beginning in 1347, the plague wiped out more than half of the continent’s population, upending societies and interrupting wars. Subscribe to read this story ...