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  1. Earth

    World’s largest tsunami debris

    Seven immense coral boulders — one of them a three-story-tall, 1,200-metric-ton monster — have been found far inland on a Tongan island and may be the world's largest tsunami debris.

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  2. Physics

    Nobel Prize in physics shared for work that unifies forces of nature

    Understanding of broken symmetry has been crucial to the standard model of particle physics.

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  3. Life

    Tough times for mammals

    Between a fifth and a third of the world’s mammal species face the threat of extinction.

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  4. Humans

    The long, wild ride of bipolar disorder

    The first long-term study of its kind finds that bipolar disorder identified in children often persists into young adulthood and involves frequent, intense swings between manic euphoria and depression.