The Earth’s Core Is Cooling Too Fast, And It’s A Major Problem

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Anyone who saw the movie The Core all the way back in 2003 probably already knows everything about the inside of the planet already.

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Earth’s Interior Is Cooling “Much Faster Than Expected”

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Researchers at ETH Zurich have demonstrated in the lab how well a mineral common at the boundary between the Earth’s core and mantle conducts heat. This leads them to suspect that the Earth’s heat may dissipate sooner than previously thought.

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Earth’s interior is cooling faster than thought

Earth’s heat may dissipate sooner than previously thought.

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The evolution of the planet Earth can be described as the history of cooling over the past 4.5 billion years. The surface of the Earth was covered with a deep ocean of magma.

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Mordor on Earth? Magma from the depths of hell is seeping through a mysterious crack

Somewhere in central Panama, there is an almost unearthly phenomenon of an opening going deep into the mantle.

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Earth isn’t going to open up its gaping maw, dragonlike, and swallow us all into the inferno anytime soon, but it is exhaling hot breath somewhere under Panama.

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Think Climate Change Is Messy? Wait Until Geoengineering

Someone’s bound to hack the atmosphere to cool the planet. So we urgently need more research on the consequences, says climate scientist Kate Ricke.

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Here’s the thing about the stratosphere, the region between six and 31 miles up in the sky: If you really wanted to, you could turn it pink. Or green. Or what have you. If you sprayed some colorant up there, stratospheric winds would blow the material until it wrapped around the globe. After a year or two, it would fade, and the sky would go back to being blue. Neat little prank.

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‘New hidden world’ discovered in Earth’s inner core

The core isn’t a “boring blob of iron” after all.

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Earth’s “solid” inner core might actually be a bit mushy, researchers now find.

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Warping of Planet’s Crust: Melting of Polar Ice Shifting Earth Itself, Not Just Sea Levels

Animation showing ice loss from the north pole

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Research by new Ph.D. finds warping of planet’s crust, with far-reaching effects.

The melting of polar ice is not only shifting the levels of our oceans, it is changing the planet Earth itself.

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New gravitational wave detector picks up possible signal from the beginning of time

Artis impression of what gravitational waves might look like

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Bumps in detector could point to new physics.

Two intriguing signals spotted in a small gravitational-wave detector could represent all kinds of exotic phenomena — from new physics to dark matter interacting with black holes to vibrations from near the beginning of the universe.

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Earth’s core is growing ‘lopsided’ and scientists don’t know why

Exploded view of the innder layers of the Earth

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The core is losing heat faster under Indonesia than it is under Brazil, and that’s messing with the seismic waves passing through it.

There’s a mystery brewing at the center of the Earth. Scientists can only see it when they study the seismic waves (subterranean tremors generated by earthquakes) passing through the planet’s solid iron inner core.

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