Ectopic teeth are teeth that develop or erupt in the wrong place. Instead of following the usual path to the mouth, they end ...

When Pliny the Younger recorded his first-hand experience of the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius 2,000 years ago — a cataclysm that buried Pompeii and killed his uncle, Pliny the Elder — he provided enough ...

At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. The growing outbreak is raising alarm among doctors who are ...

The Infected State team has released a demo for GTA Infected State. GTA Infected State is a new story-driven total conversion mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. So, let’s take a closer look at it.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the summer of 1991, Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines, self-destructed. The eruption started on June 12, and three days later it ...

Mount Etna’s ancient eruptions followed radically different paths, with some magma lingering near the surface for weeks while other magma raced upward from nearly 30 kilometers deep in just hours.

I’m generally not enthused about lumps and bumps of any variety on my body. But two years ago, I discovered one in particular that deeply unsettled me: a softball-sized mass behind my right knee. The ...

Volcanic ash forced temporary airport closures, including at Jakarta’s main Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. Airlines including Singapore Airlines and Scoot canceled flights as authorities ...

Full sun views from different NASA solar cameras of a failed solar eruption from data collected in March 2024. Credit: Tingyu Gou A solar eruption begins to rise from the Sun. Then, instead of ...

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Erupting or silent, volcanoes have always captured our imagination. As volcanologists, we have seen how that fascination can collide with rolling news coverage and social media, amplifying false ...