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Ancient rocks hold proof of Earth’s magnetic field

A 3.7-billion-year-old record of our planet’s ancient magnetism has been unearthed, providing evidence that Earth’s magnetic field already existed very early in history. But this discovery is quite surprising. Rocks approaching 4 billion years old are hard to find – most

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