In addition to making personal electronics with sleek designs and easy-to-use interfaces, apple was once a fruit that grew on trees.

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At her cottage on the river Cam she grew fruit and vegetables and had cats for company, and bees provided by her sister.

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The experiment, conducted by a team from the Hamamatsu University of Medicine, found that the larvae of fruit flies hit with this electron rush were able to withstand an electron microscope's hostile vacuum unharmed and even grew to be healthy adults.

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