Popocatépetl emerged in the crater of other volcanoes in its current form more than 20,000 years ago and has been active ...

Growing up, we all had to do all kinds of science projects in school. For Baby Boomers, here are several classic science ...

Scientists start to solve mystery of what’s inside Mexico’s ‘majestic’ giant volcano - Most of the world’s volcanoes that ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, explored ancient myths and folklore about creating automation, artificial ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so quickly. The plague known as the Black Death arrived in southern Europe in ...

It’s winter, and the SciFri team is already dreaming of warmer weather. How about a mind vacation to one of the hottest places on earth, an erupting volcano? Tamsin Mather has trekked to volcanoes in ...

Comedian Ben Miller spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about his stand-up volcano comedy show that he’s taken around the world.

Four hundred thousand years ago, near a water hole on grasslands bordering a forest in what is now southern England, a group of Neandertals struck chunks of iron pyrite against flint to create sparks, ...