From http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/science-of-earths-core-takes-a-dramatic-twist-20150301-13oz5m.html we have this report:
For the first time, employing a sophisticated earthquake-deciphering technique (thus far only used to illuminate the planet's upper shells), a team of scientists from Illinois University in the US and Nanjing University in China have succeeded in exploring the inner core itself.
Their ground-breaking research supports an earlier prediction that deep within the inner core sits yet another even deeper innermost shell, containing iron crystals aligned in a different direction (north-south rather than east-west for the rest of the core).
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Covalent on Thursday March 05 2015, @06:49PM
to give this a catchy name.
Here are a few examples, in case they're reading this:
Core 2G
DualCore
Core++
The all new 2015 Core2 GTC 3000 Perpendicular
and my personal favorite
iCore2
My work here is done.
You can't rationally argue somebody out of a position they didn't rationally get into.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @07:07PM
Core 2.0
CloudCore
Synergistic Core
Maybe even "Common Core"?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by gallondr00nk on Thursday March 05 2015, @07:12PM
So the Deros exist after all!
The Shaver mystery is solved.
(Score: 5, Funny) by SrLnclt on Thursday March 05 2015, @07:22PM
The summary and TFA both mention Illinois University, which got me wondering if this was the University of Illinois, Illinois State University, Southern Illinois University, etc... After a few seconds on google it looks the University of Illinois [illinois.edu] is the winner.
Stay tuned for more topics here at SoylentNews from the Technology Institute of Massachusetts, Southern California University, and a University of Ohio State.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Covalent on Thursday March 05 2015, @07:33PM
Here in Michigan we refer to "a University of Ohio State" as "Ohio" just to get a rise out of them. The pretentiousness of "THE Ohio State University" is overdone, even for a university that refers to itself as "The Champion of the West".
You can't rationally argue somebody out of a position they didn't rationally get into.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Thursday March 05 2015, @09:20PM
That's OK: Here in Ohio we call the University of Michigan the "dogs" or even worse. I always theorized that the reason for this rivalry was that Ohio ended up with Toledo during the Toledo War [wikipedia.org] and Ohio still hasn't forgiven Michigan for it.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Friday March 06 2015, @09:18AM
Ohio...Champions of the West
I do not think that word means what they think it means...
(Score: 3, Funny) by buswolley on Thursday March 05 2015, @08:04PM
:) Conspiracy!
The iron core are Nazis
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/10/did-you-ever-see-the-nazi-hollow-earth-map-photos-and-video-2792266.html [beforeitsnews.com]
Oh those hollow earthers :)
http://www.unmuseum.org/hollow.htm [unmuseum.org]
subicular junctures
(Score: 3, Funny) by buswolley on Thursday March 05 2015, @08:06PM
Lest some future employer thing I am serious, I am not
...unless that employer is also a fellow hollow earther. A mans got to eat.
subicular junctures
(Score: 2, Funny) by zaxus on Thursday March 05 2015, @08:19PM
It's cores all the way down!
"I do have a cause, though. It is obscenity...I'm for it." - Tom Lerher
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday March 06 2015, @02:26AM
As long as Hollywood doesn't use the excuse for a remake of the "least scientifically-accurate blockbuster ever".
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Friday March 06 2015, @10:03AM
Like that's going to stop them. Is it as bad as "Hackers".?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday March 06 2015, @09:57AM
(Score: 2) by jimshatt on Thursday March 05 2015, @11:59PM
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday March 06 2015, @10:05AM
Omitting the leading 'The' in a title is not uncommon. However, you are correct that the full title should be 'The Science of the Earth's Core...'.
I can demonstrate with several contrived examples:
(Score: 2) by jimshatt on Friday March 06 2015, @05:38PM
Not a native English speaker, though.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 06 2015, @03:37AM
TBH, I'm not a scientist. But, long ago, when I was a much younger man, I did wonder about the crust. As you go deeper, and pressure builds, whatever happens to the molten rock, and deeper still, the iron core?
Crystals. Cool. Aligned north and south. Really cool. How does that affect the magnetic fields, and how much does that affect the earth's ability to absorb some kinds of radiation, while reflecting other kinds of radiation?
Now, how does that apply to other worlds? Not at all, or do we have an avenue to explore here that might help to predict the possibility of life on other planets?
Idle curiosity here - I'm not going to dive into the science. It would probably take the rest of my life to begin to understand the questions, let alone find the answers.
(Score: 2) by tathra on Friday March 06 2015, @03:45PM
planetary magnetic fields are typically generated by planetary dynamos [wikipedia.org] from mantle convection. mars has no magnetic field because its too small for the dynamo to be maintained for billions of years (iirc the mantle is thought to be solid at this point), and venus has no magnetic field because its rotation is too slow due to whatever caused it to have retrograde rotation. the planetary magnetic field diverts most of the solar wind, but whether this is actually important or not is debatable. [space.com] more than just a planetary magnetic field is required (if it is required) for a planet to be able to support life, like the planet having a thin enough crust for plate tectonics (which earth is able to have due to a big chunk of the crust being in orbit; well, maybe, i don't know if there requirements for plate tectonics are even known), and possibly having a large satellite and large gas giants in the system to act as a shields and deflectors for impacts.