The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and ...

Now, 50 years after the event, he may finally have an answer: The bottom of the tectonic plate off Portugal's coast seems to be peeling away from its top. This action may be providing the ...

The research supports the argument that Venus’ tectonics are active today, he says. What’s more, the demonstrated ability of computer simulations to predict what spacecraft may observe will be a boon ...

The 50-kilometer-wide seamount contains three dormant volcanoes, the floor of which drops more than two kilometers below the ...

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans and plate boundaries. But new research out of the University of Derby is ...

The scientists warn that this ongoing tectonic activity could eventually cause the Somali plate and parts of East Africa, including parts of Kenya, to split from the rest of continent, raising the ...

Considerable geochemical evidence supports initiation of plate tectonics on Earth shortly after the end of the Hadean. Nb/Th and Th/U of mafic-ultramafic rocks from the depleted upper mantle began to ...

A cell-based smoothed finite element method (CS-FEM) is formulated for nonlinear free vibration analysis of a plate attached to a rigid rotating hub. The first-order shear deformation theory which is ...

The purpose of this study is to determine the natural frequencies of functionally graded (FG) porous circular plates while taking into account the uniform and nonuniform porosity distribution in the ...

Given that thermoelastic damping (TED) is one of the main causes of energy dissipation in miniaturized structures, calculation of its exact amount is of particular importance in the design of such ...

School of Civil Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, P. R. China School of Science, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, P. R. China ...