How's your knowledge of Earth's geology? Flat, round or global?

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

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While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth's history.

This layer of the atmosphere is notoriously difficult to study, but new research sheds light on its mysterious processes.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Plastic Layer of the Earth's Mantle ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 207 No. 1 (July 1962), p. 52 doi:10.1038 ...

and lower thermospheric layer (about 90-110 km above Earth's surface) of the atmosphere, including the ignorosphere," explained Professor Kaoru Sato from the University of Tokyo. "If we can better ...