Seismic waves passing through Earth's inner core have revealed much about our planet's iron center: how it's changing shape, ...

But it always amazes me how you can get so much information from something so tiny.’ Today, Hatcher’s work primarily focuses ...

Warm dense matter is a state of matter that forms at extreme temperatures and pressures, like those found at the center of ...

Earth’s inner core has long puzzled scientists because seismic waves move through it unevenly. Compressional waves from ...

This is the last entry — at least for this year — in my series on batteries. Batteries are the missing link to total off-grid ...

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

Scientists unveil a solid electrolyte that moves lithium as fast as liquids, promising safer, fast-charging batteries.

Deep beneath our feet, far beyond the reach of drills or submersibles, Earth hides a solid metal heart that behaves in ways geophysicists have struggled to explain. New experiments now suggest that a ...

The Structural Science Society (ACA) today announced the appointment of Mark Wilson, Professor and Associate Department Head of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Nebraska?Lincoln, as ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications offers new insights into Earth’s inner core, potentially solving long-standing mysteries about seismic anomalies. An international team led by ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...