The liquid outer core of Earth might be the largest reservoir of carbon on the planet. The percentage sounds small, somewhere between 0.3% and 3%, but once you take into account the size of the outer ...

On the other hand, they found that carbon helped to accelerate freezing in the simulation. In the study, the researchers tested how much supercooling would be required to freeze the inner core if 2.4% ...

An illustration of the structure of the Earth from a research simulation to investigate the composition of the planet's outer core. Dark spheres in the core represent iron and tan spheres represent ...

New research from Florida State University and Rice University is providing a better estimate of the amount of carbon in the Earth’s outer core, and the work suggests the core could be the planet’s ...