The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction ...

Satellite imagery has revealed a yet-to-be-explained rise in the Southern Ocean's salinity. It could be a key factor in the ...

"Its deep, undisturbed waters have acted like a natural time capsule, trapping layers of sediment year after year, each ...

In the asymptotic limit /spl lambda//sub D//spl rarr/O (small Debye length) the boundary layer problem of a plasma is split up into the separate problems of a: quasineutral presheath and a collision ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

The transient fields of a vertical magnetic dipole on a two-layer earth model are expressed in analytical form using two different approaches. In the first, the fields in the time domain are obtained ...

Key Takeaways on Earth's Inner Core Earth's inner core is solid and blistering hot. For decades, scientists have known ...