DON'T MISS: Exploring our fascination with nature's extreme fury Just because pipes and plumbing are below ground doesn’t mean they are safe from lightning strikes. The salts and minerals in soil can ...

His body and powers then begin to transform, with Superman morphing into a new being comprised of electricity ... of lightning to get from place to place. Superman’s new powers also made him ...

which argues that life on the planet started from a lightning strike. That theory is based on a 1952 experiment showing that organic compounds could form with the application of electricity to a ...

Scientists have long known that there are LLVPs — one below the Pacific Ocean and the other below Africa. In these regions, seismic waves from earthquakes travel 1% to 3% more slowly than they ...

The continuous fissure 8 lava fountains were primarily driven by a pressure gradient as magma moved from storage chambers beneath the summit to erupt out of the low-elevation vent on the flank of the ...

Hazards associated with lava fountaining include the fallout materials (termed tephra), volcanic gas emissions, and lava flows. Tephra generally accumulates in the area immediately downwind of the ...

Researchers at ISTA have discovered that the history of contact between materials determines how they exchange charge, solving a long-standing mystery about static electricity ... and wood would form ...

“Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. Kīlauea is in a unique phase of activity in ...