Commuters on Interstate 75 driving away from Florida’s west coast ahead of the arrival of Hurricane MiltonMarco Bello / Reuters Hurricane Milton has spawned at least two large tornadoes ahead of making landfall on Florida’s west coast later tonight, and...
Place a finger on the back of your skull, at a point roughly level with the tops of your ears. Here, deep beneath the hair, skin and bone, near a fluid-filled cavity in the root of your brain, lies a...
Carbon emissions have pushed the world to the brink of 1.5°C of warmingDennis MacDonald/Shutterstock It is clear that the world is going to exceed the 1.5°C target for global warming, leading to an increasing focus on plans to cool it...
Get those neurons firingNatnan Srisuwan/Getty Images Our brains contain “banana” neurons that fire when we see or smell the fruit, or even just hear the word “banana”, hinting at how concepts are encoded within the brain. We already know that...
Winners of the Nobel prize receive a medalzhencong chen / Alamy It is that time of year when congratulations are in order, as some of the best minds in science are awarded a Nobel prize. The latest winners have a...
Mikkelwilliam/Getty Images Is there anything more tedious than the endless drive to make every waking moment more productive? “If I can save ten seconds on a process that happens ten times per day, that’s a minute and 40 seconds saved...
Weight-loss drugs might make people less inclined to exerciseMe 3645 Studio/Getty Images Semaglutide – the drug in medications like Ozempic and Wegovy – causes mice to exercise less. The finding suggests these weight-loss medications may reduce people’s motivation to work...
How can we test whether gravity is quantum?AndreusK/Getty Images/iStockphoto Though physicists have competing ideas of what quantum gravity could be like, they have yet to definitively determine whether the gravity that we experience is quantum at all. A new proposal...
October 9, 20243 min readHurricane Milton Will Turn Helene’s Debris into Lethal Projectiles in FloridaFlorida is scrambling to clear storm-damaged areas before Hurricane Milton makes landfallBy Thomas Frank & E&E NewsDebris left by Hurricane Helene is piled up in the...
October 9, 20241 min read2024 Chemistry Nobel Awarded for Cracking the Secret Code of ProteinsThree scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering how to predict the shape of proteins, crucial to understanding their function, and for creating entirely...
