There's something weird going on at the exact center of our planet.
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"Studying Earth’s center is not just a topic of academic curiosity, but something that sheds light on the very evolution of life on our planet’s surface," the pair of researchers write inThat's because, in simple terms, convection currents from deep below the surface generate the Earth's geomagnetic field, which in turn, "protects life on Earth from harmful cosmic radiation," they explained.
The Earth's seismic waves have already been observed to move fastest when parallel to our planet's spin. But puzzlingly, that's not the case for this newly discovered innermost inner core, the researchers found, suggesting these waves travel faster at a different angle.
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