Venus — a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes — may be even more geologically active near its surface than previously thought. New calculations by researchers at Washington ...
We live on the most comfortable of planets. It may not be too visible, but the Earth's magnetic field plays a critical role in maintaining that comfort. The remaining rocky planets in our Solar System ...
The theory of plate tectonics is one of the most fundamental concepts in physical geography and geology, explaining the ...
The Earth’s magnetic field is the result of charged particles getting trapped in a turbulent dance of convection currents deep below the surface. But according to a new study published in the journal ...
THE recent spell of hot sunny weather in England made possible a series of experiments concerning the existence and magnitude of thermal convection currents in the air, arising from the reflection of ...
A dramatic shift in Earth’s magnetic field occurred roughly 41,000 years ago during what scientists now call the Laschamps Event. Recent studies, including a detailed analysis presented at the ...
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the strongest ocean current on Earth, is rapidly weakening due to the accelerating ...