A new 3D model of Earth's layers could help better pinpoint where earthquakes and nuclear explosions originate.

A very cool 3D model just posted today by ‘Gerardo64’ at the GEC Models Forum. Make sure you use the pan/tilt features to look at this in Google Earth after you download the 3D model of ...

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The model shows mantle plumes (where the hot rock flows) starting at the bottom of the core-to-mantle boundary and climbing to the top, where they connect to volcanic hotspots in the Earth's crust.

We fly around the globe looking at our favourite cities with the latest versions of Virtual Earth 3D and Google Earth. Which is better?

The wacky adventures of scientists traveling to the Earth's core have been a favorite plot line in Hollywood over the decades, but actually getting there is mostly science fiction. Now, a group of ...

A recent study suggested that the number of unique species on Earth is 1 trillion. Granted, the vast majority of those are microbes, but still, Digital Life's goal to make 3D scans of every kind ...

Meet "Big Brain," the first high-res, 3D digital model of the human brain. It's the result of a huge, 10-year project built from individual scans of 7,400 slices of a single human brain. The ...