Situated between the mantle and the inner core, the Earth's outer core is a liquid layer of the Earth's core. It is mostly made up of iron and nickel, with little amounts of silicon and oxygen ...

The oyster or mussel slowly secretes layers of aragonite and conchiolin, materials that also make up its shell. This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the ...

Caption This abalone shell is a natural form of nacre -- also known as mother-of-pearl -- an exceptionally tough material found in shells and pearls. Rochester biologists have developed an ...

Long underwear — a.k.a. long johns, thermals, base layers, or whatever else you want to call the cozy, body-hugging tops and bottoms worn beneath looser clothes in cold weather — is my ...

The next layer is the mantle. Many people think of this as lava, but it's actually rock. The rock is so hot, however, that it flows under pressure, like road tar. This creates very slow-moving ...

New evidence, based on how the moon responds to the gravitational pull of Earth and the sun, has lent support to the hypothesis that the moon does in fact possess such a molten layer hidden deep ...

Image caption, Without the ozone layer, planet Earth would be a very different place. One of those is the ozone layer. It’s basically the Earth’s sun cream - it protects the planet from ...

On 16 September, the world will mark the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. It was on this day, 35 years ago, that the Montreal Protocol, considered one of the most ...

Who doesn’t love a romantic getaway to a gorgeous location, to spend quality time with your special sweetheart? Embarking on ...

Here are nine outfit ideas and styling tips on how to layer clothes this fall like a pro. Wardrobe staples are the key to layering, and that means investing in the right ones that can easily be ...

The Sam Altman-founded “proof-of-humanity” project World — rebranded from Worldcoin — launched an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain it dubbed World Chain. In an Oct. 17 statement, World said the ...

Scroll is preparing to launch its native token, SCR, in what the Ethereum layer-2 (L2) network described as a “first step toward decentralization.” On Oct. 22, Scroll plans to list SCR on ...