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ETH Zurich scientists confirmed that solid rock flows deep inside Earth, solving a decades-old mystery about seismic waves.

Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For ...

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The metallicity of a host star, particularly its iron content (Fe/H), correlates with the likelihood of planetary system formation, serving as a proxy for other heavy elements essential for planet ...

A seven-planet ... lower than Earth's, but the plausible range also includes outgassing rates that are an order of magnitude higher than Earth's." Their results further indicated that the TRAPPIST-1 ...

"The heat dome can stretch over several states and linger for days to weeks, leaving the people, crops and animals below to suffer through stagnant, hot air that can feel like an oven," Gallus ...