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Mandatory Credit: Photo by CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (14768605x) A restaurant is surrounded by sand bags as the city prepares for Hurricane Milton in Bonita Beach, Florida, USA, 08 October 2024. According to the National Hurricane Center's Live Hurricane Tracker, Hurricane Milton is set to make landfall on the west coast of Florida on the evening of 09 October. After rapidly intensifying into a Category 5 storm on 07 October, Milton is expected to weaken as it reaches shore but will still bring significant weather impacts across the state. Florida prepares for landfall of Hurricane Milton, Fort Myers, USA - 08 Oct 2024

Environment

How hurricanes like Milton spawn tornadoes

Hurricanes often produce tornadoes that add to the destructive power of the storm – and climate change may make such tornadoes more common

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Health

Weight-loss drugs lower impulse to eat – and perhaps to exercise too

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Mind

Your brain has individual neurons that respond to the smell of bananas

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Environment

Once we pass 1.5°C of global warming, there is no going back

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Physics

This test could reveal whether gravity is subject to quantum weirdness

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Chemistry

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for mastering structures of proteins

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Environment

Extreme hurricane season is here and it is fuelled by climate change

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Health

Your toothbrush is teeming with hundreds of types of viruses

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Life

Paramotorists collect rare plant species from Peruvian desert oases

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Mind

Hot sauce taste test reveals how expectations shape pleasure and pain

Brain scans of people tasting squirts of hot sauce have revealed how positive and negative expectations can influence brain activity patterns for pleasure and pain

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Technology

AIs can work together in much larger groups than humans ever could

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Environment

Growing number of Earth’s ‘vital signs’ endangered by climate change

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Technology

Microscopic gears powered by light could be used to make tiny machines

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Technology

Nobel prize for physics goes to pair who invented key AI techniques

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