With only geophysical data to help us probe the centre of the Earth, the properties and dynamo-generating dynamics of Earth's metal-rich core remain poorly understood. In this web focus, we present a ...
Scientists at the Australian National University have made a highly unusual discovery thousands of miles beneath the Earth’s surface: a doughnut-shaped structure within our planet’s liquid core. The ...
It’s one of nature’s topsy-turvy tricks that the deep interior of Earth is as hot as the Sun’s surface. The sphere of iron that resides there is also under extreme pressure: about 360 million times ...