The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

The environmental disaster dubbed the "Quiet Chernobyl" still affects Earth's mantle today, with land around the Aral Sea ...

Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

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Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...