While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

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

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

A team of 16 scientists and support staffers spent four summers drilling through Antarctic ice until they finally reached bedrock. To accomplish their goal, they endured average temperatures of -25.6 ...