Earth's inner core seems to be slowing its spin according to new research published in Nature Geoscience. The study authors suggest this might be part of an approximately 70-year cycle where the core speeds up and slows down relative to the rest of the planet. washingtonpost.com Submitted by shiruken t3_10jp1xi on January 23, 2023 at 10:08 PM in science 119 comments 1,149
[deleted] t1_j5nzrcp wrote on January 24, 2023 at 10:30 AM How does this play with the misshaped inner core that I read about a year or two ago? I remember reading that they assumed that the core was a ball or a sphere but turns out it’s growing crystals or is not smooth? Permalink 6
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