How's your knowledge of Earth's geology? Flat, round or global?

Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Plastic Layer of the Earth's Mantle ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 207 No. 1 (July 1962), p. 52 doi:10.1038 ...

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...

Scientists have always been curious about the atmosphere surrounding us, but in the past, they could not just hop on a spaceship to see what was up there. Instead, scientists hiked up high ...

So researchers designed an experiment to ... nearly 2 million times Earth’s atmospheric pressure and temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius, akin to inner layers of gas giants.

(That’s “thin” when it comes to the inner layers of the Earth ... exchange between Earth's core and mantle is small. Yet, our recent high-pressure experiments reveal a different story.

They called their experiment "The World Avoided." By the year 2020 in the simulation, 17% of the Earth's protective ozone layer vanished. Holes in the ozone layer formed not just over Antarctica—as ...