Seismic wave measurements suggest the supervolcano beneath the popular national park is unlikely to erupt any time soon
Read article: Geophysicists pinpoint location of Yellowstone magma reservoir
Noble gas forms compounds with iron at extremely high pressures
Read article: Earth’s core could contain lots of primordial helium, experiments suggest
Unexplained peak in the abundance of beryllium-10 in ferromanganese ocean crusts could become an independent time marker for geological dating
Read article: Radioactive anomaly appears in the deep ocean
Hear from volcanologists about these stunning geological phenomena and the thrill of working in volcanic landscapes
Read article: Threads of fire: uncovering volcanic secrets with Pele’s hair and tears
Tom Tierney reviews Celsius: a Life and Death by Degrees by Ian Hembrow
Read article: Setting the scale: the life and work of Anders Celsius
Unexpected finding could help determine the safest times to launch spacecraft
Read article: Lightning sets off bursts of high-energy electrons in Earth’s inner radiation belt
Volcanic hairs and tears reveal a wealth of information about what lies within lava
Read article: Pele’s hair-raising physics: glassy gifts from a volcano goddess
Scientists make first ever measurements of a planet-wide field that could be as fundamental as gravity and magnetic fields
Read article: Ambipolar electric field helps shape Earth’s ionosphere
There’s a scientific reason why Twisters is set in the US Great Plains rather than Argentina, and it has to do with the Gulf of Mexico
Read article: Why North America has a ‘tornado alley’ and South America doesn’t
Events at Kilauea in 2018 may have been triggered by a previously undescribed mechanism
Read article: Hawaiian volcano erupted ‘like a stomp rocket’
