Like a life-size lava lamp of doom, some underwater volcanoes spit giant lava blobs instead of erupting in explosions, a new study suggests. Until now, scientists divided volcanic eruptions into two ...

Scientists studying the formation of the sea floor thousands of feet below the surface have a new theory for why there are so many holes and collapsed pits on the ocean bottom. Scientists studying the ...

Back in the 1970s, scientists came up with a revolutionary idea about how Earth's deep interior works. They proposed it is slowly churning like a lava lamp, with buoyant blobs rising as plumes of hot ...

The hotspot feeding Hawaii's volcanoes may look like one of two lava lamp bubbles — an oval blob or a long, stretched-out plume. With direct access to the mantle still the stuff of science fiction, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — With students headed back to school, whether in person or online, it is important to keep learning hands on a fun. This experiment is all about density and you will get to create a ...

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Nature put on a psychedelic show in Michigan this week, filling the sky with tangerine-colored bubble-shaped clouds that look like the inside of a lava lamp. You can see the spectacle for yourself in ...

Six-year-old Brenden Ethridge was so excited he could barely contain himself. “Oh gosh,” he shouted after learning he and other campers at Thursday’s session of Discovery Science Place’s chemical ...

When I say “yourself,” I mean “whack a tealight candle underneath.” It’s certainly more DIY than plugging it into a wall socket and flicking the switch. One tealight is good for around three hours of ...

This time last year, space enthusiasts all over the world were eagerly awaiting photos of Pluto. As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zipped toward its July 2015 flyby of the Pluto system, every image it ...

Scientists studying the formation of the sea floor thousands of feet below the surface have a new theory for why there are so many holes and collapsed pits on the ocean bottom. In a recent article in ...