A Visit to Buffalo's Lava Lab - Atlas Obscura

A Visit to Buffalo's Lava Lab

Can scientists predict volcanic eruptions? To answer that question, we joined our friends at Gizmodo to visit the researcher Ingo Sonder's lava lab at the University at Buffalo, where he's researching explosive reactions between magma and water in order to one day answer that very question. Gizmodo staff writer Yessenia Funes gets up close and personal with glowing magma for a firsthand look at the process of conducting this delicate experiment. 

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