{"id":225408,"date":"2025-11-19T02:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/why-mysterious-structures-within-earths-mantle-hold-clues-to-life-here"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:08:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:08:30","slug":"why-mysterious-structures-within-earths-mantle-hold-clues-to-life-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/why-mysterious-structures-within-earths-mantle-hold-clues-to-life-here","title":{"rendered":"Why mysterious structures within Earth\u2019s mantle hold clues to life here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-mysterious-structures-within-earths-mantle-hold-clues-to-life-here.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so vast and unusual that they defy conventional models of planetary evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-025-01797-y\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published in <i>Nature Geoscience<\/i> by Rutgers geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki in combination with collaborators offers a striking new explanation for these anomalies and their role in shaping Earth\u2019s ability to support life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so vast and unusual that they defy conventional models of planetary evolution. Now, a study published in Nature Geoscience by Rutgers geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki in combination with collaborators offers a striking new explanation for these anomalies and their [\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-225408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225408","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=225408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}