Is Earth's inner core solid or liquid? While the inner core is extremely hot, experts have known that it is solid for many ...

The inner core also exhibits an east–west asymmetry, with seismic waves travelling slightly faster in the upper surface of the eastern hemisphere compared with that of the western hemisphere.

Earth’s inner core has both changed its relative rotation rate and deformed in the past few decades, according to an analysis of seismic waves recorded when the inner core occupied the same ...

Working from sleek, polished forms like Brancusi’s, he sliced through them — just as Lucio Fontana had slashed through canvases — to reveal a complex inner core.