Living without a pulse: Engineering a better artificial heart
The human heart beats 60 to 100 times a minute, more than 86,000 times a day, 35 million times a year.
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The human heart beats 60 to 100 times a minute, more than 86,000 times a day, 35 million times a year.
Recently, at the House of Sweden, there was a feisty exchange among the newest Nobel laureates.
Microsoft researchers have designed a smart bra that can detect stress.
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Users of Microsoft's Xbox One console caught swearing in video clips are having their accounts suspended.
A computer program is trying to learn common sense by analysing images 24 hours a day.
The oldest big cat fossils ever found - from a previously unknown species "similar to a snow leopard" - have been unearthed in the Himalayas.
A comet is heading for a close encounter with the sun later this month, and if it is not vaporized or torn apart, it should be visible to the naked eye in December.