Quiz: How much do you know about the composition of Earth? Test your knowledge of the elements and minerals in our planet’s different layers. by Andy Brunning, special to C&EN ...

The Inaccessible Earth: An Integrated View to Its Structure and Composition. 2nd ed. Chapman and Hall, 1993. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-1516-2. Drake, Michael J., and Kevin Righter.

A groundbreaking discovery in northern Quebec has confirmed the existence of Earth's oldest known rocks, dating back 4.16 ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

A belt of volcanic rock along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada’s Quebec province has been confirmed as the oldest ...

Two different testing methods found that rocks from an area called the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northern Quebec date ...

Antimony selenosulfide (Sb2(S,Se)3) solar cells are emerging as a strong candidate for next-generation thin-film ...

Scientists believe that gold and other precious metals are slowly leaking to the surface from Earth's core through Hawaiian ...

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

Arun Misra of Vedanta and Hindustan Zinc on the country’s ambitions to build a domestic rare-earth industry from scratch ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only ...