A Tiny Magma Blob May Rewrite Earth's History of Plate Tectonics By Tim Childers An International team of scientists finds evidence that Earth began recycling itself more than 3 billion years ago.
Turbulent Blobs in Earth's Core May Explain Sudden Jerks in the Magnetic Field By Brandon Specktor Here’s one explanation for why Earth’s magnetic field undergoes weird geomagnetic jerks every decade or so.
Scientists Find Weird Reason Diving Plates Get Stuck 400 Miles Beneath Earth's Surface By Stephanie Pappas A slippery layer beneath Earth stops chunks of crust in their tracks, creating "stagnant slabs" in the middle of the mantle.
A Stash of a Quadrillion Tons of Diamonds May Be Hiding Deep Inside Earth By Yasemin Saplakoglu Diamonds may be more common than we think
Earth's Inner Core Shouldn't Technically Exist By Brandon Specktor Yep: we're all living on a giant paradox.
Parts of Earth's Original Crust Exist Today in Canada By Stephanie Pappas Rocks from the eastern shore of the Hudson Bay in Canada contain elements of some of Earth's earliest crust, new research finds.
Primeval Reservoirs Under Earth's Mantle May Be Older Than the Moon By Tia Ghose The Earth's mantle retains traces of primeval materials that are older than the moon, which formed a scant 100 million years after the solar system's coalescence.
Microwavable Mantle: Physicists Nuke Mock Earth Layer, for Science By Tia Ghose Scientists trying to determine where the missing heat from the Earth comes from have turned to an unlikely source: a microwave oven.
Earth's Mysteriously Light Core Contains Brimstone By Elizabeth Goldbaum Researchers have found that the vast majority of brimstone — reverently referred to in biblical times as "burning stone," but now known more commonly as sulfur — dwells deep in the Earth's core.
Crashing Electrons Could Explain Earth's Magnetic Field Mystery By Becky Oskin New research claims to have solved a messy paradox that has plagued geoscientists who study Earth's core and its life-protecting magnetic field.
Gravity Moved Continents on Early Earth By Jesse Emspak Continents move, but what got them going? A new computer model shows it was gravity. Whole continents flattened out under their own weight.
Rare Diamond Reveals Earth's Interior is All Wet By Becky Oskin A battered diamond that survived a trip from "hell" confirms a long-held theory: Earth's mantle holds an ocean's worth of water.
Tiny Crystal Defects Help Drive Plate Tectonics By Becky Oskin Researchers recently discovered a new crystal defect in olivine that helps explain how the mantle drives plate tectonics.
