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Extreme and long-lasting heat draws more and more moisture out of the ground and vegetation.

"In my wildest dreams, it's already gone beyond what I would've hoped for," she said.He is one of the most successful designers in the sports industry with a legion of world champions to his name.

But Lee Huxtable is not widely known outside the world of darts., and he sealed victory at the O2 in London, with darts designed by the Welsh engineer.From his Bridgend base, Mr Huxtable also made darts for semi finalist, Gerwyn Price and Dutch player Michael Van Gerwen for the tournament, which has run since February.

But of all the darts players he has worked with, he is missing one big one - current world champion, Luke Littler, whose arrows are made by rival company.As head of development for Red Dragon Darts, Mr Huxtable tries to name all the world champions he has made darts for.

"Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Michael Van Gerwen, Luke Humphries, Trina Gulliver..." the names keep coming.

Within his work, Mr Huxtable has played a pivotal role in helping many players excel including World number one, Humphries.On the sci-fi implications of that, he wryly observes: "In my profession, there is a fine line between science fiction and philosophy".

Prof Seth, however, is exploring the idea that true consciousness can only be realised by living systems."A strong case can be made that it isn't computation that is sufficient for consciousness but being alive," he says.

"In brains, unlike computers, it's hard to separate what they do from what they are." Without this separation, he argues, it's difficult to believe that brains "are simply meat-based computers".And if Prof Seth's intuition about life being important is on the right track, the most likely technology will not be made of silicon run on computer code, but will rather consist of tiny collections of nerve cells the size of lentil grains that are currently being grown in labs.