While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...

According to scientists from the California Institute of Technology and Swiss research university ETH Zurich, a new method ...

These findings suggest more diverse origins for these anomalies in Earth's lower mantle.' Earth is made up of three layers – ...

Nature is full of everyday superheroes – animals that can fly tens of thousands of miles, weave incredibly strong webs, lift ...

Scientists have long suspected that sulfur, which forms strong chemical bonds with gold, allows it to be transported up to ...

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...

Heat from the Earth’s crust could rival wind and solar as a near ... This is the same energy that keeps the Earth’s core in a molten state at up to 6,000C – also generating the Earth ...

The internal core of the earth is probably largely composed ... both igneous and denudational differentiation then combined in developing the earth's crust. We now find in the latter all those ...

Although this inner core is white hot ... the two lies about 465 miles (750 kilometers) beneath the Earth's surface. The crust is the outermost layer of the Earth. It is the familiar landscape ...