Tag: mantle

23 APR

Arsene Wenger: These Arsenal stars can take the mantle from Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez

Aaron Ramsey and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are the ‘local’ lads he hopes will finish this season with the sort of bang that will not only rescue Arsenal‘s season but lead the club to future glories. As it stands, Arsene Wenger’s best bet for European football next season looks as if it could be by winning the […]

10 APR

Japan has plans to drill through the earth’s crust and reach the mantle

Few things get us more excited than audacious research projects which also sound like potential blackmail plots from an old James Bond movie. Fortunately, a new venture from the scientists at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) hits both checkpoints with flying colors. It is planning to be the first firm in […]

09 APR

Scientists aim to reach the Earth’s mantle with an undersea drill

We’d know a lot more about what’s under the Earth’s crust if Jules Verne’s Icelandic volcano weren’t but a figment of his imagination. Japan’s Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology’s (JAMSTEC) largest drilling ship called “Chikyu” is very real, though, and a group of international researchers plan to use it to drill into the Earth’s […]