A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...

As the process continued, the descending oceanic plate functions like an anchor, dragging down the Earth's crust and forming a vast depression that has accumulated millions of years' worth of ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of the Earth's enigmatic inner core, revealing for the ...

These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly impossible places. Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds ...

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A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

Share on Pinterest Scientists are investigating xenon gas as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s. Westend61/Getty Images Researchers continue to search for effective treatments for Alzheimer ...

Enshrouded by five filled electron shells (electronic configuration [Kr] 5s 2 4d 10 5p 6), xenon has been slow to reveal its secrets.Its scarcity in the Earth's atmosphere — 10- to 100,000-fold ...

They extend nearly 1000 kilometres up from the outer core into the lower mantle, a slowly-moving layer between Earth’s crust and core. Because seismic waves pass more slowly through these ...

Could inhaling xenon gas help fight Alzheimer’s disease? In the January 15 Science Translational Medicine, scientists led by Oleg Butovsky at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and David Holtzman ...