{"id":206215,"date":"2025-02-12T07:15:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-discover-earths-inner-core-isnt-just-slowing-down-its-also-changing-shape"},"modified":"2025-02-12T07:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:15:43","slug":"scientists-discover-earths-inner-core-isnt-just-slowing-down-its-also-changing-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-discover-earths-inner-core-isnt-just-slowing-down-its-also-changing-shape","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover Earth\u2019s inner core isn\u2019t just slowing down \u2014 it\u2019s also changing shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-earths-inner-core-isnt-just-slowing-down-its-also-changing-shape.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The surface of Earth\u2019s inner core may be shape-shifting, new research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published Feb. 10 in the journal Nature, looked at earthquake waves that have skimmed the edge of the inner core, 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometers) deep. It revealed that, even when the core had rotated into a previously observed position, there were often subtle differences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surface of Earth\u2019s inner core may be shape-shifting, new research suggests. The study, published Feb. 10 in the journal Nature, looked at earthquake waves that have skimmed the edge of the inner core, 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometers) deep. It revealed that, even when the core had rotated into a previously observed position, there were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206215","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}