Hot rock and ice: Volcanic chain underlies Antarctica
2015-12-24 02:54:58Seismic maps of the mantle will improve predictions of giant ice sheet's fate
Planetary scientists would be thrilled if they could peel Earth like an orange and look at what lies beneath the thin crust. We live on the planet's cold surface, but Earth is a solid body and the surface is continually deformed, split, wrinkled and ruptured by the roiling of warmer layers beneath it.
Fewer landslides than expected after 2015 Nepal earthquake
2015-12-23 05:22:00Fewer landslides resulted from the devastating 2015 Nepal earthquake than expected. In addition, no large floods from overflowing glacial lakes occurred after the magnitude 7.8 quake, which struck near the town of Gorkha, Nepal on April 25, 2015. The pattern of where the landslides occurred was unexpected.
Superflare: Sun could release flares 1000x greater than previously recorded
2015-12-18 06:08:39Similarity between the flare on KIC9655129 and our own Sun's flares demonstrates the potential for the Sun to superflare
What the Sun might look like if it were to produce a superflare. A large flaring coronal loop structure is shown towering over a solar active region.
Credit: University of Warwick/Ronald Warmington
The Sun demonstrates the potential to superflare, new research into stellar flaring suggests.
Stretchy slabs found in the deep Earth
2015-12-10 04:58:12A new study suggests that the common belief that the Earth's rigid tectonic plates stay strong when they slide under another plate, known as subduction, may not be universal.