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2 articles
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
The Rock Cycle
Rock is the everyday symbol of permanence, yet every rock is midway through a journey. Three families — igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic — endlessly transform into one another over deep geological time, driven by Earth's internal heat and by weathering at the surface, with no fixed one-way path.
10 minJul 9, 2026