Scientists discover the Earth’s inner core isn’t solid or liquid. It’s ‘superionic.’0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- February 28, 2022
The structure of Earth’s core could be unlike any other state of matter, researchers have found.
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Earth’s inner core is growing more on one side than the other – here’s why the planet isn’t tipping0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 30, 2021
More than 5,000 kilometres beneath us, Earth’s solid metal inner core wasn’t discovered until 1936. Almost a century later, we’re still struggling to answer basic questions about when and how it first formed.
Scientists just dug the deepest ocean hole in history0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- May 29, 2021
The team drilled a hole nearly 5 miles (8,000 m) below the Pacific Ocean’s surface to study the region’s earthquake history.
Scientists Detect Signs of a Hidden Structure Inside Earth’s Core0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 10, 2021
While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like pages of a book, is Earth’s history. Our history.
Scientists Just Narrowed Down The Age of Earth’s Inner Core0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- August 26, 2020
At some point in Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history, its entirely liquid iron core cooled enough to form a solid ball in the center.
New Structures Detected Near Earth’s Core Using Seismic Wave Recordings0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 13, 2020
A surprising new discovery has revealed a previously unknown structure located deep beneath the Pacific Ocean between the Earth’s core and mantle.
Earth’s inner core is doing something weird1
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- August 22, 2019
Data from old Soviet weapons tests are helping scientists get a high-resolution look inside our planet.
Earth’s core may have hardened just in time to save its magnetic field0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- January 29, 2019
This shift both prevented the protective magnetic field from collapsing and recharged it
New insight into Earth’s crust, mantle and outer core interactions0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 12, 2018
A new study by the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with the Universities of Lancaster and Oslo, sheds light on a longstanding question that has puzzled earth scientists.
Do you know where your xenon is? Maybe it’s hanging out with iron and nickel in the Earth’s core0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 2, 2018
The application of extreme pressure dramatically affects the chemical properties of xenon, so that it stops acting aloof and interacts with iron and nickel.
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