The average Congressperson is 57 years old, male, and a lawyer or a businessman by training. Jess Phoenix is none of those things. She’s a volcano scientist in her mid-thirties who also founded the ...

Volcanologist Jenni Barclay joins WIRED to answer the internet's lava-hot questions about volcanoes. How do volcanoes cause lightning? What would happen if you fell into a volcano? What do ...

Editor’s Note: Einat Lev, a volcanologist, is an associate research professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. Her research, funded by the National Science Foundation ...

JOHNSTON RIDGE — Though his oft-quoted words — "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!” — signaled the start of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, little has been made public about the personal life of ...

Editor’s Note: Einat Lev, a volcanologist, is an associate research professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. Her research, funded by NASA and by the Gordon and Betty ...

This story was originally published on the Hitchcock Project for Visualizing Science news site. The Hitchcock Project, an initiative of the Reynolds School of Journalism, aims to train students and ...

Serrato Marks: What was it like to work on that research project? What was hard about it and what was really cool about it? I think just about every aspect of it was completely interesting because it ...

Jess Phoenix is likely one of the only would-be U.S. politicians with a favorite volcanic eruption. (The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, if you were wondering.

There is a curious love triangle that sits at the center of the new documentary “ Fire of Love.” It’s between a man, a woman and a volcano. Well, all volcanoes really. The names might not be ...

LOS ANGELES — Volcano scientist Jess Phoenix is in her element in the otherworldly landscape of Vasquez Rocks. She points out the way the rock formations jut at a steep angle toward the sky — evidence ...