Taking up an ancient mantle A look at how conservators restore a textile dating back to 1900 for an exhibition on batik in the region ...

Traces of ancient life have been found in rocks deep inside the Earth's mantle, having been sucked down there hundreds of millions of years ago. Scientists discovered traces of carbon—the ...

For the ancient Earth, 3 billion years ago, the researchers found that, because the ancient mantle was so much hotter than today, and the slabs much denser, a density flip would not have occurred.

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent; its ancient bedrock is slowly dripping into the Earth’s ...

Geologists Uncover Remnants of Earth’s Mantle That Have Lasted Over 2.5 Billion Years New research suggests that a discrepancy in rocks shows they endured extreme heat, and reveals more about an ...

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Geochemists studying Arctic rocks say they have found evidence of ancient rock from the interior of the Earth that is nearly as old as the planet itself. Such material gives scientists an idea of ...