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For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet ...

This Google Maps image captured in 2021 revealed a mysterious, triangular dark patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

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