The ocean to end all oceans discovered near Earth's core

The ocean to end all oceans discovered near Earth's core
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This changes everything:

A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth's surface. The finding could help explain where Earth's seas came from.

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Ryu Spaeth

Ryu Spaeth is deputy editor at TheWeek.com. Follow him on Twitter.