No matter how technologically advanced we are, we keep discovering wondrous and frightening new forms of life. Just recently, a team of scientists discovered some new species of fish inside some ...

An ash cloud from an erupting volcano in Chile, drifting all the way to the Atlantic and Indian oceans, has grounded dozens of flights and affected thousands of passengers in Australia and New Zealand ...

Australia is a vast, remote, and mysterious land of extremes. Think of Australia, and images of its red, arid, inhospitable interior instantly spring to mind. The Australian outback, dominated by the ...

Rare earth metals form from magmatic interactions within the Earth’s crust, so studying certain minerals formed from ancient volcanoes can help us understand where to mine them. A new study looking at ...