Understanding Earth's Crust Earth's crust ranges from 5 to 70 kilometers in thickness and serves as the planet's outermost ...

Turbulence makes many people uneasy or downright queasy. And it's given researchers a headache, too. Mathematicians have been trying for a century or more to understand the turbulence that arises when ...

Figure 2: Seismic properties interpolated from ab initio calculations. The temperature–pressure curves for both ‘cold’ and ‘average’ mantle cross the phase boundary twice, providing a possible ...

Nights have been warming much faster than the days, observations from the last fifty years have shown. Analysis of the causes of this more rapid warming at night shows that this is likely to continue ...

The Voyager spacecraft, on a decades-long journey of exploration, have made an unusual discovery at the edge of our solar system. They’ve detected a layer of hot plasma at the solar system’s boundary, ...