Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy. The ...
The audience was stunned. Atwater was the first person to use the newly revealed secrets of the seafloor to explain a geological feature on land. She showed her colleagues that anywhere you had ...
In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown — an ...