{"id":216921,"date":"2025-07-01T06:14:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-just-found-earths-pulse-and-its-tearing-a-continent-apart"},"modified":"2025-07-01T06:14:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:14:45","slug":"scientists-just-found-earths-pulse-and-its-tearing-a-continent-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-just-found-earths-pulse-and-its-tearing-a-continent-apart","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Found Earth\u2019s Pulse \u2014 And It\u2019s Tearing a Continent Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-found-earths-pulse-and-its-tearing-a-continent-apart.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa\u2019s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa\u2019s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.<\/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-216921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216921","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=216921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}