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The solidification of the inner core may have strengthened Earth's magnetic field. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The solid ...

More than 5,000 kilometers beneath us, Earth’s solid metal inner core wasn’t discovered until 1936. Almost a century later, we’re still struggling to answer basic questions about when and how it first ...

A wealth of new information about Earth’s inner core has surfaced in recent months. Scientists now have evidence that the planet’s innermost layer is changing shape. Scientists who just months ago ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) -A bit of news you didn’t expect, in a new study published this week in Nature Geoscience, scientists announced that they believe the Earth’s inner core has stopped spinning. Scientists ...

Even though some days feel more chaotic than others, the rotation of the surface of the planet proceeds at a pretty constant rate—about one full rotation every 24 hours. But the rotational speed of ...

The planet's core could be a mushy mix of solid and liquid. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth's inner core may be filled with ...

The inner Earth is a mysterious place, and now scientists may have uncovered a strange new secret. According to a new study, the Earth’s inner core may have recently stopped rotating, relative to the ...

Earth’s heart may have a secret chamber. The planet’s inner core isn’t just a solid ball of nickel and iron, researchers say, but contains two layers of its own: a distinct central region nestled ...

The results place the core at the younger end of an age spectrum that usually runs from about 1.3 billion to 4.5 billion years, but they also make it a good bit older than a recent estimate of only ...

This fall marks the first semester of the new core science requirement for students in the School of Foreign Service. The Class of 2022 is the first group of students subject to the new core ...