On a cool February morning in 1904, a spark ignited a fire in the heart of downtown Baltimore. Within hours, a raging inferno ...

He encountered Indigenous islanders who used lava stones as mortars and crafted obsidian — a black volcanic glass — into hand tools. Sensing a chance to take power, he stayed for nearly 20 ...

Smith shows a visitor a five-inch knife, the blade carved from black volcanic glass (obsidian) by a friend of his. The handle, Smith made from a buffalo bone. When the visitor asks, facetiously ...

Objects made of this volcanic glass are found at many Neolithic sites around the Mediterranean. Spectroscopic analysis indicates that the raw material often came from hundreds of miles away ...

Within just a couple of hour's drive from Sin City, there are some amazing day trips from Las Vegas to otherworldly state and ...

What can glass beads collected from the lunar surface more than 50 years ago teach scientists about the Moon’s volcanic ...

Apollo astronauts discovered orange and black glass beads on the Moon's surface, a surprising find among the gray landscapes.

A discovery of lunar glass beads continues to captivate scientists, shedding new light on the Moon’s volcanic history. These ...

Designed in collaboration with Hyundai and design students from the Munich University of Applied Sciences in Germany, the new OBSIDIAN electric sedan concept is equal parts Honda 0 Saloon ...

Pele’s hair is strands of volcanic glass that can cluster together and look like tumbleweeds. The volcanic fragments fall down within a few hundred yards from eruptive vents, though strong winds ...

That plume included ash, volcanic rock and volcanic glass shards known as Pele's hair. The observatory warned that these volcanic fragments can be a hazard to people, especially when carried by ...