Evangelista Torricelli, one of the first to discover atmospheric pressure, once said, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of the element air." The Earth's gravitational field is pulling ...

Instead of relying on energy-hungry reactors to generate high temperatures and pressure, researchers are looking underground ...

In a proof-of-concept study, published January 21 in the Cell Press journal ... "We may be able to use Earth as a factory, harnessing its heat and pressure to produce valuable chemicals like ...