New research sheds light on the Earth's "innermost inner core," offering new insight into the formation of the planet and its magnetic field. Researchers had long suspected the Earth had another layer ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching ...

Nathan Englander is a fabulist: That’s the first thing to keep in mind. Even when he’s trafficking in the naturalistic — in his story “The Wig” from “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges” or in the ...

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Earth is often described as a circle or an oval, but it is neither. As the planet spins more than 1,000 miles per hour at the ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

How volcanologists brave lung-singeing fumes to monitor eruptions with cutting-edge sensors Journey to the Center of Earth The Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program has stitched together a visual ...

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Out in the countryside of rural America, you can find all sorts of attractions that are too-good-to-be-true. One of the most ubiquitous sights are bottomless pits, which in reality usually only go ...

Journey to the Center of the Earth was truly a noteworthy project, as revealed by those who worked on the film, including ...

China begins drilling a six-mile-deep scientific well named Shendi Take 1 to explore the depths of the Earth and its secrets.