{"id":158980,"date":"2023-02-25T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-discover-gigantic-solid-metal-ball-inside-the-earths-core"},"modified":"2023-02-25T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T01:22:17","slug":"scientists-discover-gigantic-solid-metal-ball-inside-the-earths-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-discover-gigantic-solid-metal-ball-inside-the-earths-core","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Gigantic Solid Metal Ball Inside the Earth\u2019s Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-gigantic-solid-metal-ball-inside-the-earths-core3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a new, innermost layer nestled inside our planet\u2019s inner core, a 400-miles solid metallic ball that responds to the reverberating shockwaves of earthquakes in an unexpected way.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-36074-2\" class=\"\">new paper<\/a> published this week in the journal <em>Nature Communications<\/em>, a team of two seismologists from the Australian National University found that the Earth has an \u201cinnermost inner core,\u201d which may have been formed following a \u201csignificant global event from the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, the innermost inner core has something different from the outer layer,\u201d lead author Thanh-Son Pham, a seismologist at the Australian National University, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2023\/02\/24\/new-earth-inner-core-layer-metallic-ball\/\" class=\"\">told <em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWe think that the way the atoms are [packed] in these two regions are slightly different.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered a new, innermost layer nestled inside our planet\u2019s inner core, a 400-miles solid metallic ball that responds to the reverberating shockwaves of earthquakes in an unexpected way. As detailed in a new paper published this week in the journal Nature Communications, a team of two seismologists from the Australian National University found [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}