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Earth & Climate
Plate Tectonics
Why South America fits Africa, why Wegener was dismissed for half a century, and how magnetic stripes on the seafloor finally supplied the mechanism that turned continental drift into plate tectonics.
10 minJul 17, 2026
Earth & Climate
Earthquakes and Seismic Waves
How a fault stores strain for centuries and lets go in seconds, why P waves arrive before S waves, and how the shadow that shear waves cast on the far side of the planet revealed a liquid outer core.
10 minJul 16, 2026