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Two Continent-Sized Hot Blobs Deep Inside Earth Help Shape Our Magnetic Shield
8+ hour, 52+ min ago (892+ words) Home " Earth News Research led by A. J. Biggin (University of Liverpool) Earth's magnetic field shapes itself into a teardrop stretching about 40,000 miles toward the Sun. Without it, the steady stream of solar particles would slowly strip away our atmosphere. Mars probably…...
Beneath Antarctica’s Largest Ice Shelf, A Hidden Ocean Is Revealing Its Secrets
1+ week, 5+ day ago (964+ words) Home " Earth News Research led by Craig Stevens, Yingpu Xiahou (University of Auckland) and Christina Hulbe (University of Otago) Beneath Antarctica's'Ross Ice Shelf'lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth " a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of…...
Tiny Sand Grains May Finally Solve 5,000-Year-Old Stonehenge Mystery
1+ week, 6+ day ago (405+ words) Home " Historical News Research led by Anthony Clarke and Christopher Kirkland (Curtin University) The findings, published in Communications Earth & Environment by researchers Anthony Clarke and Christopher Kirkland from Curtin University, make it very difficult to argue for glacial transport. Stonehenge's…...
The Way Earth’s Surface Moves Has A Bigger Impact On Shifting The Climate Than We Knew
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (941+ words) Home " Earth News Research led by Ben Mather (The University of Melbourne), Adriana Dutkiewicz, Dietmar M'ller, and Sabin Zahirovic (University of Sydney) Thingvellir national park, where two tectonic plates meet in Iceland. (Credit: VisualProduction on Shutterstock) Our planet has experienced…...
Earth’s Core May Have An Onion-Like Structure Scientists Never Knew Existed
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (516+ words) Home " Earth News Reviewed by John Anderer Research led by Efim Kolesnikov (University of M'nster) Deep beneath the surface of our planet lies the Earth's core, a solid ball of iron under crushing pressure. Now, however, scientists conducting laboratory experiments…...
The Surprising Connection Between Coffee Bubbles And Volcanic Disaster
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (682+ words) Home " Science & Technology News Reviewed by John Anderer Research led by Olivier Roche (Universit" Clermont Auvergne) The physics of coffee bubbles and volcanic eruptions are surprisingly similar. (Credit: andy0man on Shutterstock) Like a dormant volcano, plenty of people just can't get…...
Earthquake Jitters: Why The Quietest Faults May Be The Most Dangerous
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (1023+ words) Reviewed by John Anderer Research led by Meng Li, Andre R. Niemeijer & Ylona van Dinther (Utrecht University) Long dormant faults can be unleashed by human activities. (Credit: Fotos593 on Shutterstock) Some faults can go tens of millions of years without motion. No…...
Earth’s Inner Core: Nobody Knows Exactly What It’s Made Of – Now We’ve Started To Uncover The Truth
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (733+ words) Home " Earth News Research led by Alfred Wilson-Spencer, University of Leeds Illustration of Earth's interior revealing subducting water and a rising plume of magma. At the interface where subducting water meets the core, a chemical exchange occurs to form a…...
Series Of 'Marsquakes' Recorded By NASA Yields Most Complete Record Of Planet Formation Ever Detected
5+ mon, 17+ hour ago (826+ words) Home " Science & Technology News " Astronomy News Research led by Dr. Constantinos Charalambous (Imperial College London) Conceptual view of Mars, with elements of this image furnished by NASA. (Image by buradaki on Shutterstock) LONDON " For scientists hoping to piece together how…...
Alpine Ice Core Sample From Last Ice Age Uncovers Ancient Europe’s Forgotten Climate Crisis
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (534+ words) Research led by Michael Legrand (Paris Cit" University) and Joe McConnell (Desert Research Institute) An ice sample on the melter during continuous ice core chemical analyses in the lab (Credit: Sylvain Masclin) Researchers from Paris Cit" University and the Desert…...