Deep beneath the Earth lies a mysterious and powerful force. A wellspring of nuclear energy which could one day rip us apart. Many scientists have found clues that natural nuclear reactions have ...

An earthquake typically sets off ruptures that ripple out from its underground origins. But on rare occasions, seismologists ...

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

Few geological scenarios capture public imagination quite like a full-scale eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. The ...

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Researchers have proposed that changes in Earth's ionosphere could trigger electrical forces that nudge fragile areas of the ...