Seabolt reports on the science behind a volcano.

They look like ordinary mountains off in the distance, beautiful against the pale blue sky, but what's inside that mountain is not ordinary, and sometimes, dangerous - even fatal. I'm talking about volcanoes. They're dotted all over the globe, north, south, east and west, some dormant and some not.

Volcanoes are mountains made up of various natural elements (including debris from previous explosions), but the huge rock is connected to reservoirs holding searing hot magma. And magma, being buoyant, rises, and as it rises more and more, the pressure decreases, resulting in expanding gasses. The expanding gasses send the magma flow through the Earth's crust and out into the open, through vents and fissures. We now have a volcanic eruption, and the magma that has erupted, is now called lava.

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Cass402 reports on her cousin, the miracle.

My cousin is a miracle. He would be dead right now if the doctors were right. He would've been dead years ago, actually.

When he was only two years old, my cousin was diagnosed with an uncommon disease: mitochondrial disease. Only one in 4,000 children in the United States develop this disorder. And my cousin is one of them. He has a serious form of the disease caused by a mutation that hadn't been detected in any patients until he was diagnosed in 2006. When he was diagnosed, he was given three months to live. Only three. Guess what? He's six years old now, and he's still alive. I've never been so glad to see doctors be wrong.

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