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Here’s how a cliff-clinging population on a remote volcanic stack rewrote extinction for one of the world’s rarest insects.

These ghostly hoops have been spotted above volcanic events around the world. But how they form has long been a mystery.

Sakurajima volcano in Kyushu, Japan experienced its 162nd explosive event this year, blasting a plume of ash 5,000 feet into ...

The Black Death has long been framed as a purely biological catastrophe, a lethal bacterium riding into crowded ports and ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

They come up with their own games, and then we make cleanup part of the fun, too.” Many 5-year-olds are deep into learning to ...

The new station—with a continuous real-time data stream from a seismometer, GPS, cameras and infrasound sensors—will provide ...

Geothermal energy accounts for only 0.4 percent of the U.S.’s energy output, but by using a technique known as “superhot rocks,” that number could skyrocket. This process uses fracking technology to ...

With Trump’s budget knife still poised over NOAA’s climate research operations, international researchers see a reduced role ...