We have been in a deep freeze for the past several weeks and people are asking, how do the honey bees survive these frigid ...

Researchers from Utrecht University have found in a study that there are two colossal peaks that reach heights of around 620 ...

MOUNT Everest has long been considered the tallest mountain on Earth, but new research reveals it might not even come close.

Under the Pacific Ocean, hidden material was discovered in Earth’s mantle. So we have sunken, ancient worlds down there, and […] The post Underneath The Pacific Ocean, There Are Sunken Worlds In The ...

"Therefore, they do not take part in mantle convection, the flow in the Earth ... than their surroundings and inaccessible by any current technology. Still, their discovery is reshaping how ...

Previously, it had been thought that the mantle would, therefore, be 'well mixed' by flowing currents ... haven't been moved or disrupted by mantle convection, meaning that the mantle is not ...

Over billions of years, convective currents driving plate tectonics should remix and homogenize the entire mantle. However, these findings suggest that convection is limited to the upper part of ...

are where tectonic plates pull apart due to convection currents in the mantle. Most constructive plate boundaries are found on ocean floors. Some of these undersea volcanoes become so large that ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.

Scientists have discovered two mountains which reach heights of around 620 miles (1,000km), dwarfing anything else found on ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around since the formation of the mantle four billion years ago, or areas where ...