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The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

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Nature Geoscience - Core curiosityThierry Alboussière at the Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, and colleagues present a theory to explain these curiosities (Nature 466, 744–747; 2010). They ...

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The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Illustration of Earth's core structure: the outer crust, the rocky mantle, the liquid outer core, and the solid inner core. - ...