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What can the Earth tell us about itself?

5 Live Science Podcast

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The Earth's Core

Quakes and nuclear tests are used to measure the center of the earth. Verdali: It would take decade-long experiments with 20 or 50 instruments. We don't know how life started on earth, despite our planet being essentially right beneath our feet. Charles Darwin put it in a letter to his contemporary Joseph Hooker back in the early 1870s that something could have emerged in a warm little pond.

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