Lava is one of the most awe-inspiring substances on Earth, whether it's flowing gently or blasting violently out of the ground. But what makes it switch between one or the other? To investigate the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- What happens when lava and water meet? Explosive experiments with manmade lava are helping to answer this important question. By cooking up 10-gallon batches of molten rock and ...

What happens when lava and water meet? Explosive experiments with humanmade lava are helping to answer this important question. This long-term, ongoing study aims to shed light on the basic physics of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — How do you make your own lava? Dump 10 gallons of basaltic rock into a high-powered induction furnace. Let it heat up for 3 or 4 hours. Stir occasionally with a steel rod. Once the ...

For the first time, a team of researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) quantified and rigorously studied ...

HOBART | Hobart Middle School students might be a little more eager to learn more about physics after seeing balloons explode inside a vacuum chamber and a racket ball soaked in liquid nitrogen ...