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A stunning new study is challenging the conventional wisdom about Earth’s continents. For years, we’ve been taught that Earth has seven continents, but emerging research suggests that the number might ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

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