Far below the familiar blue of the surface oceans, geophysicists are piecing together evidence for a vast, hidden reservoir of water locked inside the planet itself. Instead of filling open caverns, ...
South African diamonds have revealed nickel-rich metallic inclusions, offering the first direct evidence of reactions predicted to occur deep in Earth’s mantle. The study shows how oxidized melts ...
A recent study has revealed an unexpected shift that happened beneath the Pacific Ocean in 2010. Using decades of satellite and ground-based magnetic field data, researchers tracked a dramatic shift ...