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Michelangelo’s David is at risk of falling over after an earthquake or roadworks because of fractures in the statue’s ankles, researchers have said.Experts from the National Research Council and Florence University made plaster replicas of the statue, and subjected them to high forces. Small fractures in the statue’s ankle — …