Geoscientists have solved an age-old mystery of oceanic volcanism and plate tectonics, explaining why some islands contain so much continental material despite their distance from continental plates.

The study has found a new geological feature that is connecting European and North American continents. Plate tectonics is a scientific theory that explains the movement of Earth's lithospheric plates ...

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Earth is the only planet known to possess continents. In a new study published August 23 in the journal Geology, researchers suggest unexpected seeds for the formation of the first continents on our ...

Forget what you learnt in elementary school geography, Earth apparently doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we’re taught that the world is made up of Africa, Antarctica, Asia, ...

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Classical plate tectonic theory was developed in the 1960s. It proposed that the outer layer of our planet is made up of a small number of rigid plates separated by narrow boundaries. The surface of ...

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Quantum communication has quietly crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction, with researchers now stitching ...

From December 3, 2025, the Gallery of the Five Continents will be open to visitors at the Louvre Museum, offering an ...