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This year, the Earth’s core put on a show unlike any other, with volcanic eruptions that dazzled observers from every continent. Some of these eruptions were so breathtaking they left viewers ...

The drifting plume of ash from Chile's erupting volcano forced new cancelations of dozens of flights on Monday in Argentina, Uruguay and other South American countries, even as airlines in Australia ...

The trip was a chance to show off new technologies developed in the Boise State lab. What Mock did not know at the outset of his presentation (on Thanksgiving-day) was that two days later he would be ...