The Real Journey to the Center of the Earth
No, you can't hike or spelunk or even tunnel down to the center of the Earth, even if movies like The Core or this summer's 3D adventure flick, Journey to the Center of the…
View ArticleEarthquakes Continue to Roll Through Reno
Some residents of Reno, Nevada, are leaving their homes after two months of scattered earthquakes. An earthquake that registered 4.7 on the Richter Scale hit Friday night -…
View ArticleA Molten Blizzard Beneath Mercury's Surface
Mercury's magnetic field is about 100 times weaker than that of the Earth - a curiosity that scientists have been trying to make sense of for years. Recent observations of…
View ArticleMonitoring Aftershocks in China
Texas Tech geophysicist Hua-wei Zhou touched down in Beijing just 40 minutes before the devastating Sichuan province earthquake struck. He and his colleagues were planning to…
View ArticleGeophysical Coalition Testing High-Tech Tools To Unearth Hidden Graves
Perhaps the saddest byproduct of acts of orchestrated violence isn't the staggeringly high body counts that can accrue, but the bodies that aren't counted. Conflicts like…
View ArticleUntouched For The Last Billion Years, Water In Canadian Mine Holds...
Scientists digging around roughly one-and-a-half miles below the Earth's surface in an Ontario mine may have just discovered the oldest free-flowing source of isolated,…
View ArticleGeophysicists Are Turning Peanut Butter Into Diamond Gemstones
In his lab at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Germany, Dan Frost is trying to simulate conditions found in the Earthâs lower mantle. More than 1,800 miles below the…
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