{"id":182717,"date":"2024-02-14T19:23:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-earths-core-is-cooling-way-faster-than-we-thought-scientists-say"},"modified":"2024-02-14T19:23:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:23:26","slug":"the-earths-core-is-cooling-way-faster-than-we-thought-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-earths-core-is-cooling-way-faster-than-we-thought-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"The Earth\u2019s Core Is Cooling Way Faster Than We Thought, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-earths-core-is-cooling-way-faster-than-we-thought-scientists-say3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to new research, the core of the Earth is <a href=\"https:\/\/ethz.ch\/en\/news-and-events\/eth-news\/news\/2022\/01\/erdinneres-kuehlt-schneller-ab-als-erwartet.html\" class=\"\">cooling much faster and sooner<\/a> than originally anticipated \u2014 a new mystery that could throw a wrench in our understanding of the planet\u2019s evolution.<\/p>\n<p>To get a better sense of how far along the Earth is in the process, scientists are studying the thermal conductivity of the minerals present in the layer between the planet\u2019s core and mantle. The faster that hot center passes heat to the planet\u2019s outer layers, the faster the Earth is losing the heat present in its core.<\/p>\n<p>In a lab simulation, a team of researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the Carnegie Institution for Science applied immense amounts of pressure and heat to a mineral called bridgmanite \u2014 which is found in the transitional zone between the core and mantle \u2014 to simulate the conditions deep below the surface. They then measured its thermal conductivity to get a better sense of the cooling processes at play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to new research, the core of the Earth is cooling much faster and sooner than originally anticipated \u2014 a new mystery that could throw a wrench in our understanding of the planet\u2019s evolution. To get a better sense of how far along the Earth is in the process, scientists are studying the thermal conductivity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182717","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}