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Almost all of Earth’s gold is hundreds of feet below the surface. But some of it is oozing from the core into the mantle.
This week, see how gold is leaking from the planet’s core, watch sharks sharing a communal meal, unearth Egyptian tombs, and ...
An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The ...
Our planet's core is rich in gold that can leak out into the mantle, and in some cases, end up in volcanos on the surface, ...
The University of Göttingen has “literally struck gold” in Hawaiian volcanic rocks leaking from deep within the Earth’s ...
Researchers at Göttingen University find gold and ruthenium in Hawaiian volcanic rocks, suggesting core materials are ...
A new analysis of volcanic rocks in Hawaii suggests gold and other precious metals, such as platinum, are escaping up into ...
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“When the first results came in, we realized that we had literally struck gold,” Nils Messling, a geochemist at Göttingen ...
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. For a long time, there has been a missing puzzle ...
Earth’s core is apparently a bit leakier than scientists expected. In a new study published in Nature, researchers describe ...