The secrets of the inner earth

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Deep beneath our feet, at the border between Earth’s core and t

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BBC Science Focus Magazine

15 April, 2025

BBC Science Focus Magazine

Mysterious ‘surge’ under earth’s crust could reshape world map, study claims

A heartbeat-like pulse has been discovered beating deep beneath East Africa – and it’s ripping the continent apart. The strange thumping is caused by a rhythmic surge of molten mantle rock rising and

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Study finds that earth’s core is ‘leaking’ gold

PLANET EARTH

BBC Science Focus Magazine

The planets that shouldn’t exist

Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi

The Great Outdoors

What lies beneath

Documentary photographer Richard Cross rises above the shortbread tin romanticism that colours so much of our outdoor heritage, with the perspective provided by drone photography applied to land use issues of our day

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Melting glaciers could trigger volcanic eruptions around the globe

Melting glaciers could make volcanic eruptions more explosive and ...

BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Juno the mission that rewrote the story of jupiter

It’s difficult to fully grasp the enormity and extremity of Jupiter. The planet – a striped behemoth of swirling gas with around 100 moons, one of which is larger than Mercury – dominates the Solar Sy

BBC Science Focus Magazine

Mysterious ‘surge’ under earth’s crust could reshape world map, study claims

How It Works

Study finds that earth’s core is ‘leaking’ gold

PLANET EARTH

BBC Science Focus Magazine

The planets that shouldn’t exist

The Great Outdoors

What lies beneath

How It Works

Melting glaciers could trigger volcanic eruptions around the globe

Melting glaciers could make volcanic eruptions more explosive and ...