Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

The environmental disaster dubbed the "Quiet Chernobyl" still affects Earth's mantle today, with land around the Aral Sea ...

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and ...

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

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

There are some weather phenomena that are more surprising than others, but without a doubt, the eruption of lava in ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...

Wu Fuyuan, an academician of CAS and a corresponding author of the study, said the moon displays an asymmetry between its ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...