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Earth's core does much more than generate the planet's magnetic field

For about 540 million years, Earth’s magnetic field and the oxygen in its air have risen and fallen together. A NASA-led team has now measured that link, suggesting the planet’s molten core helped ...
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Earth’s inner core may be layered like an onion

Deep inside Earth, researchers see signs that the solid inner core may be arranged in multiple chemical layers far below. High-pressure experiments on iron alloys, squeezed at Germany’s PETRA III ...
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Russian firm develops critical process for molten salt reactors’ operations

A Russian company has developed a production process for lithium-7 fluoride. Lithium-7 fluoride, to be used in the molten salt reactor, is produced by solid-phase synthesis. The development is crucial ...