{"id":33362,"date":"2017-01-10T23:23:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T07:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/scientists-think-theyve-uncovered-the-missing-element-inside-earths-core"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:53:07","slug":"scientists-think-theyve-uncovered-the-missing-element-inside-earths-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/scientists-think-theyve-uncovered-the-missing-element-inside-earths-core","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Think They\u2019ve Uncovered the \u2018Missing Element\u2019 Inside Earth\u2019s Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-think-theyve-uncovered-the-missing-element-inside-earths-core.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s well known that the innermost part of Earth is made mostly of iron (about 85 percent). Nickel accounts for about 10 percent. That last 5 percent however, has remained a bit of a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese research team has been searching for that missing element for decades, and now believes that the final 5 percent is most likely made from silicon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-38561076\">reports the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They presented their results at the <a href=\"https:\/\/agu.confex.com\/agu\/fm16\/meetingapp.cgi\/Paper\/153611\">Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union<\/a> in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-may-have-uncovered-the-missing-element-inside-earth-s-core\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-may-have-uncovered-th...rth-s-core<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s well known that the innermost part of Earth is made mostly of iron (about 85 percent). Nickel accounts for about 10 percent. That last 5 percent however, has remained a bit of a mystery. A Japanese research team has been searching for that missing element for decades, and now believes that the final 5 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33362","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65396,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33362\/revisions\/65396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}