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Artifacts from the Iron Age have revealed an intense historical magnetic anomaly in the Middle East. Could using a similar ...
Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...
Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...
Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.
Without mentioning China, the PM outlined New Delhi’s case as an alternative development partner to African nations, calling ...
Discover how mantle upwellings beneath Africa could lead to a new ocean, as revealed by a study on tectonic plate interactions in the Afar region.
Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...
Forget what you learnt in elementary school geography, Earth apparently doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we’re taught that the world is made up of Africa, Antarctica ...
Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there ...
Although everyone learns that the Earth is neatly divided into seven continents, a scientist recently suggested that things may not be so clear cut.
The formation of Earth’s continents billions of years ago set the stage for life to thrive. But scientists disagree over how those land masses formed and if it was through geological processes we ...