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Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Astronomers have been spotting so-called ‘Super Earths’ at a regular rate over the past few years and new research by a team of American physicists sheds a light on some of the forces at work below the surface of these terrestrial giants. According to the team’s report in the journal Science Express, magnesium oxide, a key ingredient in the mantles of rocky planets, behaves differently within many of these newly discovered...