Nearly 2,000 years ago, a young man's brain in Herculaneum turned to glass during Mount Vesuvius' eruption, due to extreme ...

When the fuming and rumbling at Mount Spurr, a giant volcano northwest of Anchorage, started picking up in October, Alaska’s ...

The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C ...

This was the 11th episode (Feb 25/26) since the eruption started in December. Trump’s China tariff shock sparks a global ...

Kīlauea Volcano has been erupting on and off for the past several months. Scientists now think they can predict the next ...

The owners of an island volcano in New Zealand where 22 tourists and local guides died in an eruption had their criminal conviction for failing to keep visitors safe thrown out by a judge on Friday.

It was one of those perfect late summer days in Alaska. The sun hung high in the sky and cast a warm golden light over the ...

A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.

The winning photographs provide a stark reminder of the beauty and chaos of the natural world ...

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his ...

The volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD that buried the Italian city of Pompeii, with its inhabitants suffering a deadly ...

Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, covering nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash which buried the towns and hundreds of its ...