The internal, infernal machinations of our planet may be way more complex than we suspected. A new, detailed probe of Earth's heart reveals that the rotating inner core doesn't just change in rotation ...

Deep beneath the familiar blue of the oceans, Earth may be hiding a far larger sea of potential. New high pressure experiments suggest the planet’s metallic heart could store hydrogen equivalent to ...

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Deep below the crust and mantle, far beyond the reach of any drill, Earth’s core may be hiding a planetary-scale cache of hydrogen. Recent high‑pressure experiments suggest that this hidden store ...

Earth's core contains nine to 45 times more hydrogen than the planet's oceans do, according to a new study that could settle a debate about when and how hydrogen was delivered to Earth.

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What is the speed and timing of the Earth’s inner core cooling? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the composition ...

A schematic depiction of the tilted inner core wobble. Credit: Dr. Ding/Nature Communications. 10.1038/s41467-023-43894-9. Researchers from China have confirmed the existence of an approximately ...

Geophysicists from ETH Zurich and SUSTech, China, have demonstrated the dynamo effect of the Earth’s core in a model in which viscosity has no influence, as is the correct physical regime for the ...

Front Matter -- Thermal Structure of Deep Earth. Melting of Fe Alloys and the Thermal Structure of the Core / Rebecca A Fischer -- Temperature of the Lower Mantle and Core Based on Ab Initio Mineral ...