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Look ahead to the biggest science and technology news stories of next year with New Scientist’s 2024 preview

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In 2024 the Hera mission will revisit the asteroid punched by NASA

NASA’s DART mission slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the European Space Agency is sending the Hera mission to investigate the collision’s aftermath

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Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target

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Get ready to see a total solar eclipse in 2024 – here's how

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Encryption upgrade in 2024 will keep data safe from quantum computers

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2024 could finally see greenhouse gas emissions start to decline

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The Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany where the exascale supercomputer JUPITER will be hosted

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Europe plans to build the world’s fastest supercomputer in 2024

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Illustration of Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lunar lander

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International fleet of spacecraft is heading to the moon in 2024

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https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112 Typical activity and appearance of a developmentally equivalent (107 day gestation) lamb fetus to a 23 ? 25 week gestation human infant during a run (day 5). SCREENGRAB - Supplementary Movie 1

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Premature babies could be treated with an artificial uterus in 2024

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The ruins of San Roque church in Villanueva, normally submerged partially in the waters of the Ebro reservoir, in the northern province of Cantabria, are now visible entirely on solid ground due to the ongoing drought that has caused the reservoir to be at 32.72% of its capacity, on August 8, 2023. The Iberian Peninsula is bearing the brunt of climate change in Europe, witnessing increasingly intense heatwaves, droughts and wildfires. The Spanish met office (AEMET) issued maximum red alerts for parts of Andalusia in the south, the Madrid region in the centre and the Basque Country in the far north. (Photo by ANDER GILLENEA / AFP) (Photo by ANDER GILLENEA/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

2024 will break the extreme temperature records set in 2023

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory will start scanning the night sky in 2024

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KRAKOW, POLAND - 2023/09/12: In this photo illustration a Stability.Ai logo displayed on a smartphone with programing code on the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Technology

AI firms will face copyright infringement lawsuits in 2024

Tech giants are gearing up for a series of potentially bitter legal battles over claims they used copyrighted material in training the latest generation of artificial intelligence

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Europa Clipper Reaction Wheel installations Requester: Gretchen Mccartney Photographer: Gregory M. Waigand Date: 2022-10-14 Photolab order: 106955-11.00.00.A04

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Europa Clipper will launch to Jupiter in 2024 to explore its icy moon

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Climate activists protest after a draft of a negotiation deal was released, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 13, 2023. REUTERS/Rula Rouhana - RC25W4A9Z99Q

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Will 2024 see the world finally turning away from fossil fuels?

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2R2AKY2 Advertising for Wegovy (semaglutide) weight loss injections in the New York subway on Sunday, April 30, 2023. (? Richard B. Levine)

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2024 will see a new weight-loss drug that trumps Wegovy and Ozempic

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A0XHR7 Fall colored trees reflected off Crawford Lake Ontario Canada

Earth

We might officially enter the Anthropocene epoch in 2024

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