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All Those Nuclear Tests Decades Ago Have Revealed Something New About Our Planet's Core


You probably remember learning about Earth's internal layers when you were a kid in Earth Sciences class: a superhot, solid inner core, surrounded by a molten metal outer core (how metal!), and a solid-but-viscous mantle made of melted rocks.

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