Biggest and best diamonds formed in deep mantle metallic liquid
New research from a team including Carnegie's Steven Shirey and Jianhua Wang explains how the world's biggest and most-valuable diamonds formed--from metallic liquid deep...
Underwater volcano’s eruption captured in exquisite detail by seafloor observatory
The cracking, bulging and shaking from the eruption of a mile-high volcano where two tectonic plates separate has been captured in more detail than...
Large, rare diamonds offer window into inner workings of Earth’s mantle
Breakthrough research led by GIA Postdoctoral Research Fellow Evan Smith examines diamonds of exceptional size and quality to uncover clues about Earth's geology.
The researchers...
Raw foodies: Europe’s earliest humans did not use fire
Studying dental plaque from a 1.2 million year old hominin (early human species), recovered by the Atapuerca Research Team in 2007 in Sima del...
Unknown city in Greece discovered by archaeologists
An international research team at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, is exploring the remains of an ancient city in central Greece....
Earthquake -detection app captured nearly 400 temblors worldwide
The University of California, Berkeley's worldwide network of smartphone earthquake detectors has recorded nearly 400 earthquakes since the MyShake app was made available for download in...
A look at the US cold snap from NASA infrared imagery
Imagery and an animation of infrared imagery from the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite showed the movement of cold, Arctic air over the...
Breakup of supercontinent Pangea cooled mantle and thinned crust
The oceanic crust produced by the Earth today is significantly thinner than crust made 170 million years ago during the time of the supercontinent...
Antarctic Ice Sheet study reveals 8,000-year record of climate change
An international team of researchers has found that the Antarctic Ice Sheet plays a major role in regional and global climate variability - a...
Famine alters metabolism for successive generations
A famine that afflicted China between 1959 and 1961 is associated with an increased hyperglycemia risk not only among people who were born then,...