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Just over 4 billion years ago, magma from Earth’s mantle infiltrated a fracture in the young planet’s primordial crust. Over the following aeons, nearly all of the planet’s early crust melted back ...

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Exercise has been touted as a tool for managing and treating long covid, but much of the evidence has neglected one of its ...