It was a good year for research of all kinds as a team of geophysicists at the University of Maryland detected unexpected widespread structures near Earth’s core. The structures were revealed as the researchers analyzed thousands of recordings of seismic waves traveling through the Earth—they turned out to be areas of unusually dense, hot rock.
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