That behavior underpins new work on a concealed trigger for volcanic explosions, which describes how subtle shifts in the internal structure of the magma column can prime a volcano for a sudden blast ...

WE’RE HERE PAST THE HALFWAY POINT OF ASTRONOMY MONTH AT THE ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER. AND THIS MORNING WE ARE DIVING INTO MORE EXPLOSIVE FUN. WESH TWO METEOROLOGIST MARQUISE MEDA BRINGS US THE SCIENCE ...

New high-resolution images show that novae are anything but simple stellar fireworks. One exploded with multiple gas streams colliding almost immediately, while another shockingly delayed its eruption ...

A nuclear winter is a theoretical concept, but if the climate scenario expected to follow a large-scale nuclear war, in which smoke and soot from firestorms block sunlight, came to fruition, global ...

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of ...

In this special issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE, experts reflect on 2011 and highlight what to look out for in 2012 in the areas of nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, ...