WDIO

Making homemade lava lamps with simple ingredients

Science Siblings Paige and Adam Jacobson are giving us a new science experiment to do over winter break, make a homemade lava lamp. First you’ll take your baking soda and pour it in the bottom of your ...
Medicine Buffalo

Geologists make their own lava to prep for explosive experiments

Scientists in UB’s Center for GeoHazards Studies have started making their own lava to prepare for explosive experiments planned for later this summer. The purpose of this work? To study what happens ...

I Made the Viral Olympic Lava Cake: Here’s How It Compares to the Chocolate Muffins

Make the ganache: Start by heating your cream or milk until it's just steaming. When ready, pour it over the two ounces of ...
Forbes

Watch Scientists Create Lava Just To See It Explode

When lava contacts water, the results can be explosive and dangerous. So researchers at State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) are conducting experiments with their own lava to get a better ...
The Gazette

Make your own lava

Lava is almost too hot to believe — it can reach 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit — so if you ever come across real magma spewing out of a mountain, we'd recommend staying far away. This lava, however, is ...
WESH

The Science of It: Making a lava lamp

SHELDON: YOU MIGHT’VE HAD A LAVA LAMP AS A KID. NOW, YOUR CHILD CAN MAKE ONE RIGHT AT HOME. LAVA LAMPS ARE ALWAYS FUN AND COOL TO LOOK AT. TODAY WE WILL LEARN HOW WE CAN MAKE ONE. IT US ABOUT THE ...
CNN

Geologist: It’s not just lava making the volcano blow

Editor’s Note: Volcanologist Arianna Soldati received her Ph.D. in geology from the University of Missouri - Columbia. In her research, she uses a combination of field and laboratory techniques to ...