nuclear reactors show up as dark red "hotspots" of antineutrino activity. On the map the Himalayas appear hot. The Earth’s crust beneath those highest mountain peaks, it turns out, is rich in ...

The Earth is round. Now it looks that way on Google Maps. A WHOLE NEW WORLD. Google Maps now offers a refreshing new angle of Earth. That is: a more accurate one. Google recently announced that ...

Take a clay model of Earth and squish it with your fingers, and the result may look similar to the geoid — the latest and best-ever map of our planet's gravitational field. The latest Earth ...

It appears that the lithosphere, which is the rocks on the outside of the world, has a pretty significant role to play in why the tectonic plates are moving the way they are.” This is the insight from ...

Princeton's Jeroen Tromp and colleagues are eavesdropping on the seismic vibrations produced by earthquakes, and using the data to create a map of the Earth's mantle, the semisolid rock that ...

Today’s forecast: cloudy with a chance of maps ... satellite images of Earth without clouds, it’s news. MODIS cloud observations from July 2002 to April 2015 show Earth has some perpetually ...

UC Berkeley can provide an answer. It just created the first-ever detailed 3D map of the Earth's interior by studying the path of seismic waves. The model shows mantle plumes (where the hot rock ...

NASA's SWOT satellite maps nearly of all Earth's water (video) — Watch NASA's SWOT satellite unfold in space to map Earth's water in stunning video ...