A researcher from the University of Southampton will join an international team of scientists, setting sail from Southampton today (26 October 2015) for the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, to drill ...

Humans have been digging underground for millennia—on the Earth. It's where we extract some of our most valuable resources that have moved society forward. For example, there wouldn't have been a ...

Scientists have made significant progress in drilling into the Earth’s crust, reaching unprecedented depths that bring them tantalizingly close to the mantle. This monumental feat aims to unlock ...

“Are geologists… better than engineers? … able to drill to the center of the Earth? … the sexiest man [sic] alive?” Geologist Miles Traer (previously here & here) typed “Are geologists…” into Google ...

Humans have reached the moon and are planning to return samples from Mars, but when it comes to exploring the land deep beneath our feet, we have only scratched the surface of our planet. This may be ...

When it comes to renewable energy, almost all the love goes to solar and wind. Which isn't surprising, given the tear both technologies have been on of late. But solar and wind have their drawbacks.

SINCE the 1950s, people have dreamed of drilling through the Earth’s crust to the mantle. We are now a step closer, having reached the “gabbro” layer of oceanic crust for the first time. About 60 per ...