While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those changes is perhaps the most significant of all, at least to us: ...

Unexpected mantle structures hint at ancient or unknown materials, challenging current tectonic theories and prompting deeper ...

According to scientists from the California Institute of Technology and Swiss research university ETH Zurich, a new method ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found massive structures deep beneath the Pacific waters that 'shouldn't exist'.

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Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

Through last year, scientists were at work reshaping human life and equipping it, and the world, for the challenges of the ...

"Up to this year, most observations were consistent, with dark energy being the cosmological constant. Nonetheless, 2024 was full of hints pointing out this might not be the case." ...

The current magma formation theory has many shortcomings and is unable to address issues such as the origin of granites and ...