Earth’s innermost layer is a hot, solid ball of metal surrounded by a liquid metal outer core. For decades, planetary scientists suspected that the solid inner core deformed over time as it spun.

The integumentary system is the body’s outermost layer. Composed of skin, hair, nails, glands, and nerves, its main job is to protect your insides from elements in your environment, like pollution and ...

Blockchain technology is organized into layers, each with a specific role in ensuring security, scalability and efficiency. Layer 0 provides the infrastructure, while layer 1 — e.g., Bitcoin ...

One of the researchers behind these developments is Dr Jordan Phethean, a lecturer in Earth Science at the University of Derby. He worked alongside a global team, including collaborators from ...

This is the background to the discovery of super-Earth HD 20794 d by an international team including the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the NCCR PlanetS. '"Are we alone in the universe?"' ...

The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Toward the bottom ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

Feb. 12, 2025 — Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone are among the marine species most vulnerable to the changing climate's effect on California's ... New Study Unravels the History ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects ... such as stronger upper-ocean stratification, a deepening mixed layer and weakening oceanic forcing. Natural gradients across surface ocean ...

making Vesuvius "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," according to NASA's Earth Observatory. In the image, Vesuvius' caldera — a large bowl-like depression caused by the collapse of the ...