Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to remnants of “proto Earth” ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s ...

Researchers have discovered there was an anomaly in Earth's gravitational field between 2006 and 2008, potentially caused by a mineral shift deep within Earth's mantle. GRACE satellites detected a ...

Earth Exploration and Information Technology Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and ...

The sun was just rising over Santa Clara Valley Medical Center when nurse Emiko Rivera arrived to begin her shift at the hospital’s burn center. As one of the few certified burn centers in Northern ...

Scientists studying deep-sea crusts have uncovered chemical clues that suggest, 10 million years ago, Earth was showered with debris from an exploding star. Researchers identified a radioactive ...

ABSTRACT: Freshwater is a critical resource for domestic and agricultural use, but its occurrence presents a challenge. Utilization of electrical resistivity methods in aquifer delineation underscores ...

South African diamonds have revealed nickel-rich metallic inclusions, offering the first direct evidence of reactions predicted to occur deep in Earth’s mantle. The study shows how oxidized melts ...

A diamond slice of a South African diamond showing various inclusion-rich zones and laser ablation pits from microanalytical sampling. Credit Yaakov Weiss The chemical mood of Earth’s mantle, its ...

A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that form in completely opposing chemical environments—a combination so unusual ...