Far below our feet, beyond the crust we walk on and the mantle that slowly churns, something strange is happening at the very center of Earth. For decades, scientists thought they understood the basic structure of the core: a solid inner sphere wrapped in a liquid metal ocean. But in the last few years, ...
Deep beneath our feet, far below the crust and mantle we learn about in school diagrams, scientists are beginning to suspect that an echo of an ancient ocean still lingers at the edge of Earth’s core. Not an ocean in the way we picture it, with waves and light and life, but a vast, ...
You might think you understand what lies beneath your feet, but the reality is far more dramatic and mesmerizing than most imagine. Earth is a restless planet. Deep down, beneath mountains and oceans, there’s a churning inferno that’s been simmering for billions of years. The world we walk on every day is powered by an ...
Deep beneath our feet, far below the deepest mines and the ocean’s blackest trenches, lies a realm we will almost certainly never see – and yet it shapes every second of our lives. Earth’s core drives the magnetic field that shields us from harmful space radiation, stirs the mantle that feeds volcanoes, and may ...
Deep beneath your feet, far below the crust we walk on and the mantle that slowly churns, lies a realm we have never seen and will likely never touch. Yet this hidden world silently shapes the length of our days, steers our magnetic shield, and records the entire history of our planet in slow, ...
Have you ever wondered what mysteries hide beneath your feet? Picture this: you’re standing on solid ground, maybe walking to work, maybe hiking a trail. Solid, right? Safe. Predictable. Now imagine if someone told you that beneath that familiar surface lies a world so extreme, so utterly alien, that even our most sophisticated technology can ...
Benevolently hidden beneath our feet, the core of Earth is a seething sphere of molten and solid metal bursting with gold, platinum, and other precious metals. Scientists thought these treasures were locked away permanently, buried under thousands of miles of rock decades ago. New studies, however, point to something quite remarkable: gold is leaking from ...
