The Earth’s core just got a rewrite 🌍🔥
New Nature study reveals surprising findings about its composition.
Less iron, more complexity than we assumed.
This changes a lot.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09003-0#Abs1
Gold is leaking from Earth’s core—literally. Scientists found metallic traces from 3,000 km deep rising in volcanic rocks. #Geoscience #EarthCore #GoldDiscovery
https://geekoo.news/the-core-is-leaking-gold-to-the-surface/
« At the Earth's Core », c. 1962
by Roy Gerald Krenkel (american illustrator, 1918-1983)
Illustration for Edgar Rice Burroughs' "At The Earth Core", Ace Books Inc., c. 1965
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #edgarriceburroughs #earthcore #savageworlds #RGK #RoyKrenkel #pellucidar
« The study […] uses seismic waves to add evidence for the idea that the inner core switches between spinning faster and slower than Earth’s crust. […] Scientists have been struggling to pin down the specifics of the inner core’s motion. The controversy of whether or not the heart of the planet spins differently than the rest of the Earth reignited in January 2023, after Song and others proposed […] that the core’s rotation oscillates in a 70-year cycle […] The new study provides support in favor of last year’s paper, suggesting the inner core has been decreasing its speed since about 2008—and it fuels further debates on the nature of Earth’s center. » https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earths-inner-core-may-be-slowing-its-spin-another-study-suggests-180984622/
"Three minutes to the centre of the Earth" with Dr. Paula Koelemeijer.
#Science #Earth #EarthCore #GeoPhysics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/three-minutes-to-the-centre-of-the-earth/p0fwz6l4