‘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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Jurassic graveyard reveals oldest evidence that dinosaurs traveled in herds

Artistic reconstruction of a nest of Mussaurus patagonicus with hatchlings and an adult parent. (Image credit: Jorge Gonzalez)

The graveyard had more than 100 fossilized dinosaur eggs.

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A Jurassic graveyard in Patagonia, Argentina, holds more than 100 fossilized eggs and the bones of 80 Mussaurus patagonicus dinosaurs ranging in age from hatchling to adult. The trove of dinosaur remains suggests that these paleo-beasts lived in herds as early as 192 million years ago, a new study finds.

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Huge hole discovered in Arctic’s ‘last ice’

Animated image showing a gap forming in the Arctic's last ice.

The polynya, or gap in the ice, is a bad sign.

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A huge hole opened in the Arctic’s oldest, thickest ice in May 2020, a new study revealed. Scientists previously thought that this area of ice was the Arctic’s most stable, but the giant rift signals that the ancient ice is vulnerable to melt. 

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A woman in British Columbia was asleep in her bed when a meteorite crash landed on her pillow

Night sky ove a city showing a meteor falling from the sky.

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When you wish upon a shooting star, make sure to include “don’t crash into my house” in the fine print. The meteorite reportedly missed the woman’s head by mere inches.

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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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Ice Melt at The Poles Is Now Causing Hidden Changes to Earth’s Crust on a Huge Scale

Polar ice sheets melting into the ocean

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As the polar ice sheets melt, the process is not just raising sea levels – it’s also warping the underlying surface of Earth, a new study reveals, and some of the effects can be seen across thousands of miles.

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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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Magma Causing Uplift in Oregon

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Volcanic activity is causing the earth to rise in Oregon, scientists have found. Though whether such uplift is a sign of an imminent eruption remains uncertain.

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Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is fighting an invisible battle against the inner Earth, new study finds

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Underground heat is cooking the Thwaites Glacier from below, and could push it closer to collapse.

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