In a bold move that blends science fiction ambition with strategic foresight, China has launched a high-stakes mission to drill into the Earth’s crust beneath the ocean. Using its advanced deep-sea drilling vessel Meng Xiang (meaning “Dream”), China aims to penetrate the Mohorovicic discontinuity — or Moho — the boundary between the crust and mantle….
Image: University of Toronto A groundbreaking study has uncovered staggering reserve of natural hydrogen hidden deep within the Earth’s continental crust, a potential energy jackpot that could power humanity for the next 170,000 years. Researchers from the University of Oxford, Durham University, and the University of Toronto have found that this naturally occurring hydrogen could…
Xavier Le Pichon, a French geophysicist whose pioneering model of the earth’s tectonic plates helped revolutionize how scientists understand movements of the earth’s crust, died on March 22 at his home in Sisteron, in the south of France. He was 87. His death was announced in a statement by the Collège de France, France’s highest…
In a big geological discovery, scientists have found signs of portions of the Earth’s crust peeling away and sinking into the mantle. This geological churning is happening beneath California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. The phenomenon has been happening for millions of years and could shed a new light on how the continents are formed.Geologists used nearly…