Ever since the continents were all mapped, people had noticed that many coastlines, like those of South America and Africa, looked as though they would fit together if they could be moved like puzzle ...
History is full of scientific ideas that sounded absurd, offended common sense, or clashed with powerful institutions, only to become bedrock knowledge later. These ten cases show how concepts once ...
The theory of Plate tectonics – developed from Alfred Wegener’s theory of Continental Drift to explain the movement of the continents – has become the prevailing theory underpinning our understanding ...