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The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction ...

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New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

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Wu Fuyuan, an academician of the CAS and a corresponding author of the study, said the moon displays an asymmetry between its ...

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...

How did India get to its present location? Could it have been somewhere else if history were different? A study has found ...