Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America is farther east than North America. Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we ...

Since we were young, we’ve learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America ... six continents rather than seven. Map of the Northwest Atlantic.

North America’s geological core has persisted for ... By analyzing the waves, scientists can reverse engineer a map of Earth’s innards, Hua says. And the researchers sought to conduct this ...