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The Earth's Crust Is Falling Apart… A New Era Begins?

The Earth's crust is doing something pretty intense—it’s slowly breaking apart! Scientists say tectonic plates, those massive puzzle pieces that make up our planet’s surface, are shifting and cracking ...
Live Science

Plate tectonics may be why Earth has life — and the key to finding life elsewhere in the universe

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...
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Scientists discover the Earth's crust is dripping under the US - should we be worried?

Just when things couldn't get any crazier in the US, scientists have discovered that the underside of the Earth's crust is dripping molten lava inside the planet. The hot lava is thought to be ...
The Conversation

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust have captured the movement of the Milky Way’s spiral arms

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
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Earth's Core Holds a Vast Reservoir of Gold, And It's Leaking Toward The Surface

Earth's core is rich with gold, and it's leaking out through the mantle and into the crust, new research has found. A new study of isotopes found in the volcanic rock that oozed out from deep under ...