‘It’s almost science fiction’: Scientists say the shape of Earth’s inner core is changing
Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...
Scientists Detect Shape-Shifting Along Earth’s Solid Inner Core
Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...
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How much did SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 explosion pollute the atmosphere?
The rapid unscheduled disassembly of SpaceX's Starship mega rocket may have released significant amounts of harmful ...
What lies at the center of the Earth? The answer keeps changing.
A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...
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Earthquakes: Facts about why the Earth moves
Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.
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Scientists Grow Diamonds at Atmospheric Pressure in Liquid Metal and It’s a Game Changer
But now, a team led by Rodney Ruoff at the Institute for Basic Science in Ulsan, South Korea, has shattered this paradigm, ...
Two buried 'supercontinents' hiding inside Earth could be much older than previously thought
Earth has a lot going on under the surface - even in what may have once seemed to be its most unassuming layer.
Scientists discover yet another change to Earth’s inner core: its shape
Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating more material in some areas and less in others — almost like creating hills ...
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Humanity’s Best Chance of Sampling Extraterrestrial Life Could Be Thwarted By Physics
Space agencies and billionaires are still mostly focused on Mars. However, if life exists beyond the Earth but within the ...
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Supernova 'rains' could give rise to mysteriously magnetic dead stars
"Most of the external layers of a massive star are removed during the supernova, but some material falls back, making the neutron star spin faster." ...
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Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Is Shifting Toward Siberia and Raising Questions About Unusual Movement
The magnetic north pole is distinct from the geographic North Pole, a fixed point where the Earth’s axis meets its surface ... the planet’s outer core, a layer of molten iron and nickel ...