Modern research techniques allow us to not only study the surface of Earth and the heavens above it but also what lies in its depths. Jules Verne wrote about an area alive with mystery and wonder over 146 years ago; modern science indicates that the center of the Earth is a young dynamo powered by the complex interplay of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics. By accumulating data gathered by bouncing waves off the Earths core, a team of French researchers have put forth a new theory as to why one hemisphere of the core appears different from the other.
via Earths core has its own pole and its at the equator.
A new discovery reveals the least inhabited place on Earth.
The seafloor sediments in the middle of the South Pacific have fewer living cells than anywhere else measured, a new study found.
Oceanographer Steven D’Hondt of the University of Rhode Island and colleagues took a boat out to the middle of the ocean and collected cores, or cylindrical samples of sediment, from the bottom of the sea about 2.5 to 3.7 miles (4 to 6 km) deep.
They found about 1,000 living cells in each cubic centimeter of sediment — a tally that is roughly 1,000 times less than in other seafloor sediments.
“People were previously just taking cores in parts of the ocean fairly close to shore and assuming their results were typical of the ocean as a whole,” D’Hondt told LiveScience.
[From Fox News]