Researchers at Arizona State University conducted a series of experiments where they compressed an iron-carbon alloy and water together to the pressure and temperature expected at the earth’s ...

Washington, DC—A new technique developed by Carnegie’s Yingwei Fei and Lin Wang provides fresh insight into the process by which the materials that formed Earth’s core descended into the depths of our ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

New research has identified a new restriction on the chemistry involved in the Earth’s core, explaining how it was able to crystallize millions of years ago. According to this work, the core would ...

Researchers have long struggled to explain how Earth’s solid inner core formed, cooled, and crystallized without undergoing extreme supercooling. But a recent study published in Nature ...

An international collaboration including researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has discovered that the Earth’s core formed under more oxidizing condition’s than previously proposed.