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

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

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

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Geologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how the Earth’s early continents formed during the Archean time, more than 2.5 billion years ago. Their ...

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model.Image credit: Adapted from Zhao, D. et al. (2025 ...

It actually just goes under the other crust and falls back down to the mantle. Because as the older it gets, the colder it gets, and therefore the denser it gets. Eventually it gets denser than the ...

How did India get to its present location? Could it have been somewhere else if history were different? A study has found ...

Scientists discover enormous pockets of salty brine beneath the Pacific Ocean, key to understanding periodic underwater ...

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