Deep inside Earth, far below the crust and mantle we learn about in school, scientists are mapping strange, continent-sized structures that appear to shape everything from volcanic hotspots to the ...

Far below the waves of the Pacific, scientists are mapping clusters of dense, towering formations that do not fit neatly into existing models of how Earth’s interior behaves. These strange structures, ...

It’s been a while since I’ve written code in Java. This week, however, I updated my installation of Eclipse, dusted off an old Java program, and saw that ancient artifact in a whole new way. Now, I’ve ...