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Be still, my virtual beating heart The most realistic heart simulation to date allows you to view its anatomy from any perspective
ENVIRONMENT
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Pure, sweet mountain water? You鈥檇 think Swiss groundwater would be as pure as water got 鈥� but a new study shows that up to 20 per cent of water pumped from Swiss groundwater aquifers had made its way there from domestic waste water
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Solar cycle will be weakest since 1928 The sun鈥檚 new solar cycle, which began in December 2008, will be the weakest for 80 years 鈥� but even a mildly active sun could generate extreme storms
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Catching black holes before they destroy the world The risk that CERN鈥檚 Large Hadron Collider could spawn a black hole is very small but real, says a physicist who has come up with an ingenious method for trapping any black holes that might be created when the LHC is switched back on
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Notable telescopes through history From Galileo鈥檚 refractor in Venice, to the COROT spectroscopic space telescope, we take a tour of the instruments that have changed our understanding of the universe
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Emotional intelligence linked to frequency of orgasm A study of thousands of twins suggests that women with higher 鈥渆motional intelligence鈥� have more orgasms 鈥� we investigate
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Notable telescopes through history Legendary clock maker John Harrison, who made it possible to measure longitude at sea, was no lone genius after all. This was discovered when one of his pioneering timepieces was properly taken apart
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