We may owe our existence to hot blobs of rock in the Earth’s interior.
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The Earth’s inner core has long been a total mystery.
Two geophysicists and an archaeologist teamed up to connect space weather 41,000 years ago to human behaviors that might have been in response – and show the value in cross-discipline teamwork.
Pillars of hot rock connect moving BLOBS in the deep Earth to giant volcanic eruptions at its surface.
An extreme heating event may have interfered with scientists’ attempts to figure out the Moon’s age by dating lunar rock samples.
There’s a lot of hot rock in the way, and sooner or later your hole would collapse.
Borrowed from geology, subsurface imaging may help us solve crimes – if we know how best to use the tools.
Like a piece of music, every earthquake has a coda – and it contains clues about what’s happening in our planet’s core.
Half of Ethiopia’s territory is prone to medium to very high landslide risk.
Our new research predicts how Hunga Tonga’s vast underwater eruption in 2022 will change winters worldwide for years to come – as far away as Australia, North America and even Scandinavia.
For decades, scientists have tried to uncover the cause of long-term changes in Earth’s biodiversity. New simulations point at geography playing a critical role.
Research on the Deniliquin structure points to an asteroid impact that would have been more than double the scale of the one that killed the dinosaurs.
The volcanic eruptions that bring diamonds to Earth’s surface are driven by ‘pillars of heat’ stretching deep inside the planet.
Beneath the floodplains of Arnhem Land lies a hidden landscape that has been transformed over millennia as seas rose and fell.
Since 2011, professional and amateur archaeologists in Cardiff have been unearthing prehistoric artefacts. But last summer, they began to discover something even more extraordinary.
Earth doesn’t just have an inner core. It also has an innermost inner core, a solid ball within the solid ball in the very middle of the planet.
Pluto has recently active icy volcanoes, that have erupted water ice.
Researchers are using modern forensic techniques to find the bodies of victims of civil conflict in Latin America.
Earth scientists are on the skilled occupation list for immigration even as universities cut back in this area. The problem lies with a funding model that offers no incentive to lift graduate numbers.
Mars’ core is larger and less dense than we thought.
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Reader in Forensic Geoscience, Keele University
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Professor of Archaeological Science, Flinders University
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Professor, Head of Geophysics, Director of Warramunga Array, Australian National University
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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Environmental Futures, School of Science, University of Wollongong
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Senior Research Fellow, Future Industries Institute, Adelaide University
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Senior lecturer in archaeology, UCL
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Research Scholar, Academia Sinica
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PhD student in astrophysics, University of Cambridge
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PhD Student in Earth Sciences, University of Oregon
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Professor and Lecturer in Military History, London South Bank University
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Experimental Officer and Geophysical Researcher, University of Southampton
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Professor of Geophysics, University of Rochester
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Professor in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Mineral Physics, University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor, Environmental Geophysics, University of Toronto
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London