Deep beneath our feet, far beyond the reach of drills or submersibles, Earth hides a solid metal heart that behaves in ways geophysicists have struggled to explain. New experiments now suggest that a ...

Earth’s inner core has long puzzled scientists because seismic waves move through it unevenly. Compressional waves from ...

The erasure of women in science also marked Canadian scientist and U of T alumnus Maud Menten’s career. Frederick Banting, ...

Imaging technology has transformed how we observe the universe—from mapping distant galaxies with radio telescope arrays to ...

Seismic waves passing through Earth's inner core have revealed much about our planet's iron center: how it's changing shape, ...

An extra stage has been identified for the first time that helps explain why ice can have a liquid layer at the surface even ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover releases a new Mars panorama from Gale Crater ahead of solar conjunction, showing the Nevado Sajama drill site and recent geology and atmosphere studies.

Earth's core might be layered like an onion, according to a new study that looked at the anomalous nature of waved in the ...

Earth’s inner core has long challenged researchers because seismic waves do not move through it uniformly. Compressional ...

Snakes have intrigued scientists for centuries. Studying these serpents has offered clues into their bodies, venom chemistry, ...

The same uric acid that helps reptiles survive can cause problems for humans. When too much uric acid builds up in our bodies ...

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift ...