A volcanologist answers your questions about glass-shard hairballs, cooking breakfast over lava, Gollum's end on Mount Doom, ...

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Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

A calm sailboat floats below Mount Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, Italy, where volcanic ash meets the Mediterranean Sea.

A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

The volcanic eruption started a chain of events that led to the Black Death plague spreading across Europe, researchers say.

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Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a ...

On the market for $26 million, Villa d'Autore on the Via Appia Antica was once owned by the Italian cinema icon and her ...

Discover how a newly excavated site in Pompeii is helping scientists understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has ...

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