The flames themselves are "beautiful things, they're live things but they're also dangerous things", he said, adding they involve control equipment, valve trains, burners and ignition systems.

BBC: UK

Studies of the blowout preventer's two control pods suggest that a flattish battery and a dodgy valve meant that neither was in a fit state to close off the well automatically when they should have, which BP takes as evidence of poor maintenance by Transocean.

ECONOMIST: BP casts the blame for the Gulf oil spill widely

It's hard to get totally excited about a PC hardware peripheral, given the smaller quantity of games (particularly hardware-specific titles) over in desktop land, but with Valve support and what appears to be the perfect control scheme (dual analog sticks, dual fully 3D-sensing motion controllers), we'd say the Hydra has a better shot at winning us over than anything else of its ilk.

ENGADGET: Razer Hydra Sixense motion controller eyes-on

The study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found IVF babies suffered from higher rates of conditions such as heart valve defects, cleft lip and palate, and digestive system abnormalities.

BBC: New guidance on IVF defects risk

However, 5% of patients who got the valve had strokes, compared to 1% in the control group, and 16% had vascular complications, compared to 1% in the control.

FORBES: Heart Valve Victory