In the latest research, Shen and his Carnegie colleagues Ross Hrubiak and Yue Meng show experimentally that the inner core iron might in fact have a bcc structure. They did so after realizing that the ...

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The iron in Earth's inner core weakens dramatically before it melts, explaining the unusual properties that exist in the moon-sized solid center of our planet that have, up until now, been ...

To make the new iron compound, physicist Kei Hirose of the University of Tokyo and his colleagues squeezed iron and helium together in a diamond anvil cell, a high-pressure device that subjected ...

This iron jet has likely been circling the Earth for hundreds of millions of years, yet we just discovered its existence. Despite a good understanding of the iron jet's width and length, the depth ...