Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study Earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study the earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between Earth's brittle crust ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

If real, that version of plate tectonics looks nothing like Earth's. But it shows the diversity of planetary geology that could lurk elsewhere in the cosmos. "In the end, understanding what causes ...

"It's kind of like a pot boiling on a stove," said ... "We don't really know when plate tectonics as it looks today got started, but we do know that we have continental crust that was likely ...

If the crust is brand-new volcanic rock, its chemistry will look much like the mantle from whence it came. If it is remelted and recycled by plate tectonics, this chemistry shifts. An influential ...

An international team of researchers organized through the Schmidt Ocean Institute is studying the Chilean margin, an area ...

To help put things in perspective, we created this visual guide to show what 100 grams of protein looks like for vegans, vegetarians, omnivores and carnivores. The grams were calculated by ...

Some, on the other hand, actually list eight continents. This is due to the 2017 discovery of Zealandia, a small and largely ...