When one thinks of supervolcanoes, ideas such as end-of-world catastrophes, gigantic explosions, darkness caused by ash clouds covering the sun, and total madness come to mind. But scientifically ...

Beneath the geysers and steaming ground of Yellowstone National Park lies one of the most studied, yet still elusive, volcanic systems on Earth. Unlike most volcanoes that form along shifting tectonic ...

A sideways flow of hot mantle rock, not a deep plume rising from near Earth's core, may be feeding one of the planet's most closely watched supervolcanoes. That is the picture emerging from a new ...