Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

The tectonic plates under health and social care are moving again with the abolition of NHS England ... as functions were initially divided up into new bodies and then subsumed into a single behemoth.

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

But recent findings are shaking up that belief ... features like mountains and volcanoes, and it drives plate tectonics through slow-moving convection currents. Scientists have long known that ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.” ...

The tropics, where biodiversity and interactions among species abound, provide an alternative view of relationships between ...

These tectonic plates move at incredibly slow rates, approximately millimeters per year. A large amount of energy builds up between the two plates, and they eventually “slip,” causing an ...

Below is the asthenosphere: the warm, viscous conveyor belt of rock on which tectonic plates ride. They do not all not move in the same direction and often clash. This builds up a huge amount of ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

A scientific analysis of samples collected on the surface of Mars shows the red planet has evolved its own version of a carbon cycle. The cycle has helped to create life on Earth, but why not on Mars?

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