The possible causes of convection in the Earth's mantle are examined, and it is concluded that radiogenic heating together with thermal conduction is most likely to provide the driving force for any ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On a time scale of tens to hundreds of millions of years, the geomagnetic field may be influenced by currents in the mantle. The frequent polarity reversals of Earth's magnetic field can also be ...

THE recent spell of hot sunny weather in England made possible a series of experiments concerning the existence and magnitude of thermal convection currents in the air, arising from the reflection of ...

Researchers have found that fluctuations in outside temperature create convection currents within termite mounds to ventilate the living space. When they make their way into homes, some species of ...

How are ocean currents caused, and how do they affect climate? These questions were hotly debated in the nineteenth century. Some argued that water is simply pushed along by the wind; others ...

It sounds completely counter intuitive: Hot water freezes faster than cold water. It just doesn’t make any sense. If you have hot water and cold water, then you should need to cool the hot water more ...

Physicists in the US have performed a simple table-top experiment that could provide new insight into why the Earth’s continents drift apart and then move back together over several hundred-million ...

"Convection in the crust could be a key missing mechanism." Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports. Venus, the hottest ...