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Review of NASA's Solid-Earth Science Strategy

Edward M. Stolper (chair) is William E. Leonhard Professor of Geology at the California Institute of Technology. His research focuses on experimental, analytical, theoretical, and computational ...
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Grand Research Questions in the Solid-Earth Sciences

Questions about the origin and nature of Earth and the life on it have long preoccupied human thought and the scientific endeavor. Deciphering the planet's history and processes could improve the ...
NBC News

Scientists discover core deep inside Earth — a solid ball of iron and nickel

In Jules Verne’s classic 1864 novel “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” adventurers descend through an Icelandic volcano into a vast underground world populated by prehistoric creatures as they ...
Science Daily

Earth's Inner Core: Earth's solid metal sphere is 'textured'

Scientists used seismic data discovered Earth's inner core displays a variety of textures that it acquired will it formed from within the fluid outer core. The data set was generated over the past 27 ...
CNN

Earth’s core has slowed so much it’s moving backward, scientists confirm. Here’s what it could mean

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Deep inside Earth ...
CNN

‘It’s almost science fiction’: Scientists say the shape of Earth’s inner core is changing

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Scientists who just ...
Miami University

B.S. Environmental Earth Science

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and life sciences (including physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, soil science, geology, and geography) to the ...
IFLScience

NASA Marsquake Data May Show Mars Has A Solid Inner Core, Like Earth

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
Nature

Time to focus research on past, present and future climate change, say Earth scientists

Past, present and future climate change are the topics that require the most urgent research, according to a recent survey of more than a thousand experts in the field of geoscience. Carbon capture ...