Xiaolin Liu snapped this photo as an air bubble slowly rose through this flask of fluorescent crystals. Liu, who at the time was a PhD student in Ben Zhong Tang’s lab at the Hong Kong University of ...

Some of the most violently destructive forces of nature may have helped assemble the building blocks of life. To build a living cell, you need some pretty complex molecules: things like carbohydrates, ...

GREENBELT, Md. – Lightning and gases from volcanic eruptions could have given rise to the first life on Earth, according to a new analysis of samples from a classic origin-of-life experiment by NASA ...

Kama?ehuakanaloa (formerly L??ihi Seamount), a submarine Hawaiian volcano located about 20 miles off the south coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i, has erupted at least five times in the last 150 years ...

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For more than 100,000 years, a Greek volcano lay silent. But deep underground, it was still growing. Tiny zircon crystals show magma was quietly brewing between eruptions, researchers report April 22 ...