Deep inside Earth, researchers see signs that the solid inner core may be arranged in multiple chemical layers far below.
The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.
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Silicon and carbon in iron may explain the onion-like layering of Earth’s inner core
Earth’s inner core has long puzzled scientists because seismic waves move through it unevenly. Compressional waves from ...
Chinese researchers have discovered that interstitial carbon in iron-carbon alloys behaves in a superionic, liquid-like state under Earth’s core pressure and temperature conditions. Beneath Earth’s ...
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Time Moves Faster Up A Mountain – And That’s Why Earth’s Core Is 2.5 Years Younger Than Its Surface
Being on the surface of a sizable planet moving at high speed through space, spinning around a yellow star and on its axis, ...
A first-of-its-kind analysis of Hawaiian volcanic rocks has revealed that the Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals into the surface above. Over 99.99 per cent of the Earth’s deposits ...
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Silicon and carbon could explain Earth’s onion-like inner core
Deep beneath our feet, far beyond the reach of drills or submersibles, Earth hides a solid metal heart that behaves in ways geophysicists have struggled to explain. New experiments now suggest that a ...
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