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Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

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Engineering Biology (EngBio) is an emerging field at the confluence of Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, AI and Data Science. It has the potential to provide innovative solutions to these challenges by ...

In a study published in Nature Communications, a research team led by Prof. Yang Weishen and Assoc. Prof. Peng Yuan from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of ...

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