Rock festival Maid of Stone is back for its third year with a stacked line-up of head-banging bands. The festival will turn Maidstone ’s Mote Park into a mosh pit for music lovers for three days ...

Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this rifting, but a new study in Nature Geoscience suggests it is caused by rhythmic pulses of molten rock from deep below the surface.

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.