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  1. Life

    Life on Earth took a licking, kept on ticking

    Earth's early organisms may not have had to restart after a long spell of asteroid impacts.

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  2. Characteristics that help coral bounce back

    New report outlines features that make a reef able to deal with environmental stress.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    How Down syndrome works against cancer

    A surplus of cancer-suppressing protein encoded by a gene on an extra copy of chromosome 21 may explain in part why people with Down syndrome seldom get cancer.

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  4. Physics

    Europium’s superconductivity demonstrated

    A rare earth metal is the 53rd naturally occurring element to possess the property.