Plate tectonics are Earth’s oldest recycling program. The motions of these tectonic plates is one of Earths most life giving features and is responsible for creating same of our most incredible ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and ...

How has the Earth evolved, and what’s in store for the future? It’s a sticky question that has graduate student Loes van Dam covered in corn syrup by the end of a day in the lab. She thought using a ...

Experiments with plain old corn syrup have revealed that giant jets of magmarising up from near the Earth's core might explain supervolcanic activity seen at Yellowstone. Mantle plumes, as these jets ...

Sept. 15 (UPI) --A new study suggests tectonic plates are weaker than previously thought. The findings, shared this week in the journal Science Advances, explain the discrepancy between rock strength ...

A long-standing question regarding the strength of olivine, the primary component of Earth's mantle, has now been answered. This study has implications for how we understand now tectonic plates form ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The grinding of giant chunks of Earth's outer layer — responsible for burping volcanoes, crushing ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A couple of weeks ago, I was writing up a ...