Science article and podcast feature new paper by the Fischer Group

February 12, 2025

Earth’s middle depths are dull, or so geophysicists thought. The crust is fractured and convulsed by plate tectonics; in the core, churning liquid iron generates the planet’s magnetic field.

A recent Science article and related podcast feature a new paper by the Fischer Group. The paper, published in Nature Communications, and titled, “Nonlinearity of the post-spinel transition and its expression in slabs and plumes worldwide”, was the final chapter in EPS alumni Junjie Dong’s Ph.D. thesis.