"We don't know exactly what they are or what material is creating the patterns we have uncovered," researcher Thomas Schouten ...

Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on. Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s ...

Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Tokyo has created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to ...

From these indirect observations, scientists have calculated that the scorchingly hot inner core, with temperatures ...

New reports suggest that climate change models can't properly predict Earth's future climate reliably. Here's why.

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich developed iLand, a state-of-the-art computer model that can predict how ...

A new high-resolution computer model shows rocks that are colder, or have a different composition, in Earth's mantle where ...

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...

Specifically, the model reveals the importance of a gold-trisulfur complex whose existence has been vigorously debated, according to Adam Simon, U-M professor of Earth and environmental sciences ...

By watching how the earthquake waves behave inside the Earth's mantle, geophysicists can model what the Earth's innards are made of, pinpointing areas where rocks are colder or made of something ...