Tropospheric scintillation on Earth-space paths greatly increases at low elevation angles and/or higher carrier frequencies, may impair low margin systems, and can interfere with the power control ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.

A recently published study has revealed a little-known tectonic process unfolding beneath Turkey’s Central Anatolian Plateau, ...

Picture the Earth’s crust and you most probably think of dense, dry rock. You don’t imagine a goey, honey-like substance trickling down into the planet’s deep underbelly.

Based on the power-law relation between rain intensity and corresponding specific attenuation, precipitation inversion by oblique earth–space link (OEL) has become a supplement to conventional method.

This article was originally published with the title “The Organic Origin of the Earth's Crust” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 32 No. 23 (June 1875), p. 352 doi:10.1038 ...