Science of Earth's core takes a dramatic twist

By Peter Spinks
Updated March 27 2015 - 10:28am, first published March 4 2015 - 7:55am

In Jules Verne's classic 1864 novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth, German professor Otto Lidenbrock believes that volcanic tubes somehow offer a path to the centre of the Earth. This, of course, is in the realm of pure fantasy.