'It's very exciting — and might mean we have to re-write the textbooks!'
"It's very exciting — and might mean we have to re-write the textbooks!"In school, you probably learned that our planet is made up of four distinct layers: the crust, the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core.
But new research by a team of scientists from The Australian National University is shaking up the game: like a Russian doll, they say, the inner core has yet another core hidden inside of it.
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