Earth's inner core is undergoing structural transformation. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until now the ...

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

Dust off your old science textbook from grade school and you’ll probably find a familiar illustration of the Earth sliced in half, revealing the planet’s layers, from the crust down to the core — ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...