The Earth's inner core, long considered a solid and stable sphere, may be quite different. A recent study suggests that its ...

Dust off your old science textbook from grade school and you’ll probably find a familiar illustration of the Earth sliced in half, revealing the planet’s layers, from the crust down to the core — ...

The surface of Earth's inner core appears to be dynamic, changing shape as it rotates, earthquake waves reveal.

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

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The announcement, made during the launch of SOON’s general-purpose layer-2 (L2) solution, highlights the platform’s use of the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) as its execution layer. Built on ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

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A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth ...

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