A volcanic formation known as Pele’s hair is produced when air-filled magma is stretched, according to a new study by a team of scientists and glass artists.

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Scientists discover possible traces of microbial life dating back 1.9 billion years in ancient volcanic glass.

The mystery location of a giant volcanic eruption that occurred almost 500 years ago has (in part) been solved thanks to glass shards preserved in the ice covering Antarctica. In 1458 a volcano ...

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This value is usually about 2,100 to 2,190 degrees and can be measured in a few different ways. Calibrated thermal ...

The young man was found dead in a small room near the entrance to the Hall of the Augustales, a civic order of freedmen, a bit like a freemason lodge. Perhaps he was a security guard. He’s been ...

A fragment of the organic glass found inside the skull of a Mt. Vesuvius victim. Almost 1,950 years after Mount Vesuvius erupted — leaving a trail of death and destruction that’s enthralled scientists ...