One notable incident came on May 22, 1919, when a barrage of eruptive activity caused a 1,000-kilogram (2,205-pound) block of ...

The perfect relaxing thing to sneak off and watch whilst your family argues over the post-Christmas dinner game of Monopoly.

The prostate is a gland wrapped around the urethra. Its main function is to produce part of the semen ejaculated at male ...

In a few days, it will be the New Year. We all look forward to its dawning as a fresh start from the gamut of negativity—both onshore and ...

Volcanoes that dominate postcards and disaster movies are often the ones we can see, their peaks etched against the sky. Yet ...

Hugleikur Dagsson, a famed Icelandic cartoonist, writer and comedian creates super dark cartoons showing that Icelandic humor ...

The text is now best known for introducing “Pascal’s Law” or “Principle,” that any change of pressure in an enclosed incompressible fluid (like water) is transmitted equally to all points within the ...

A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world's little-known volcanoes ...

Several hundred volcanoes lie dormant beneath the Eifel in western Germany. They are typical examples of what is known as ...

An erupting volcano may have kicked off a chain of events that led to the swift dance of the Black Plague across Europe in the 14th century, in a pandemic that killed tens of millions of people. New ...

Visitors were spellbound as lava continued to spew from a volcano in southwestern Iceland, lighting up the night sky with an orange glow.

The Black Death may have killed more than half of Europe's population within just a few years. Trionfo della Morte, attributed to Buonamico Buffalmacco, photographed in Pisa by Martin Bauch An ...