Earth's inner core is likely a weird composition of superheated elements making it both liquid and solid at the same time, a study has suggested. The extreme temperatures and pressures found at the ...

Nobody quite knows what’s lurking at the very core of the Earth. Is it solid, liquid, or a new form of matter entirely? With the help of his colleagues, Chinese Academy of Sciences physicist Yu He ...

The Intel Core i7 9700K is a weird Coffee Lake processor, but that doesn't seem to be stopping it from offering a 20% multi-core performance boost despite having only two-thirds the thread-count of ...

Earth’s core isn’t just a boring, featureless ball of metal, it turns out. A recent study used seismic waves from earthquakes to make a 3D model of the center of our planet, and the researchers ...

A quirky material that behaves like a mishmash of liquid and solid could be hidden deep in the Earth. Computer simulations described in two studies suggest that the material in Earth’s inner core, ...