New findings could help better understand inner Earth and other planets
High pressure deep inside the young Earth may have driven vast stores of carbon into the planet’s core while also setting the stage for...
Scientists find a new food source for early life on Earth
Scientists have demonstrated a new source of food for early life on the planet.
Life on Earth relies on the availability of critical elements such...
How the Earth became a habitable planet
The Earth is unique in our solar system.
It is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large moon,...
How Earth’s mantle is like a Jackson Pollock painting
In countless grade-school science textbooks, the Earth's mantle is a yellow-to-orange gradient, a nebulously defined layer between the crust and the core.
To geologists, the...
Ben Franklin was right again! This time is about Iceland volcano eruption
An enormous volcanic eruption on Iceland in 1783-84 did not cause an extreme summer heat wave in Europe.
But, as Benjamin Franklin speculated, the eruption...
Scientists discover a new way volcanoes form
Bermuda has a unique volcanic past.
About 30 million years ago, a disturbance in the mantle’s transition zone supplied the magma to form the...
Scientists decode mystery of Egyptian desert glass
A recent study has solved a nearly 100-year-old riddle by discovering that glass found in the Egyptian desert was created by a meteorite impact,...
China’s Chang’E 4 mission discovers new ‘secrets’ from far side of the moon
A lunar lander named for the Chinese goddess of the moon may have lessened the mystery of the far side of the moon.
The fourth...
Scientists find a short relative of Tyrannosaurus rex
A new relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex - much smaller than the huge, ferocious dinosaur made famous in countless books and films, including, yes,...
What does Earth’s core have in common with salad dressing?
A Yale-led team of scientists may have found a new factor to help explain the ebb and flow of Earth's magnetic field -- and...
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