Magnetic Revelations: New Research Challenges Existing Theories of Life's Emergence

A multi-institution team found evidence that the Earth's magnetic field was stable 3.9 to 3.4 billion years ago when life is thought to have emerged, suggesting that continents were fixed rather than experiencing plate tectonics, thereby challenging the belief that mobile plate tectonics is essentia

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