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Myth of raindrop formation exploded High-speed video footage shows the short lifetime of a raindrop to be a complicated and explosive affair – and solves a long-standing conundrum of what determines the size of raindrops

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Window on the body: CT scans become art Radiologist Kai-hung Fung makes beautiful and informative art from the scans of his patients, and you can see his prizewinning work in our gallery

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TED: The substance of things not seen We report direct from the TED Global 2009 conference in Oxford, UK, where delegates as diverse as Stephen Fry and David Deutsch will…

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