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Tuesday, November 16, 2021

'New hidden world' discovered in Earth's inner core [Live Science, October 2021]

Title:
'New hidden world' discovered in Earth's inner core 
 
Author:
Joanna Thompson 

Published:
Live Science, 28 October 2021

From the article:
For over half a century, the scientific community thought that Earth's inner core was a solid ball of compressed iron alloy surrounded by a liquid outer core. But new research, published Sept. 20 in the journal Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, suggests that the firmness of the planetary ball ranges from hard to semisoft to liquid metal.