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Giant mounds of sand discovered beneath the North Sea off Norway may scramble what we know about a key geological process.

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Wu Fuyuan, an academician of CAS and a corresponding author of the study, said the moon displays an asymmetry between its ...

Wu Fuyuan, an academician of the CAS and a corresponding author of the study, said the moon displays an asymmetry between its ...

A Japanese researcher has found that two small islands in southwestern Japan moved nearly 10 centimeters apart in just three ...