Earth; Giant blobs in Earth's mantle may be driving a 'diamond factory' near our planet's core. ... covering topics ranging from geoscience to archaeology to the human brain and behavior.

We finally know where two giant blobs in Earth's middle layer came from — and they're a mismatched pair. These strange regions in Earth's mantle, known as "large low velocity provinces" (LLVPs ...

Citation: Giant glaciers pulverized Earth's ancient rocks, setting the stage for complex life (2025 ... Neanderthal DNA could be the cause of some modern brain malformations.

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) – the “sound of the Big Bang” – support the idea of a local void. Gabriela Secara, ...

And the moon really is significant: It's roughly 1.2% the mass of Earth.That may not be big in an absolute sense, but for the solar system, that's huge. No other moon is that large relative to its ...

If you’re swimming across a thriving coral reef, you may mistakenly believe you floated upon a giant underwater human brain. Brain coral is a hard coral, also known as a stony coral or reef builder.

Uncovering ancient impacts Early in Earth’s history, space rocks frequently hit the young planet. It is estimated that “giant impactors,” greater than 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) across ...