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2024 news preview

Look ahead to discover the biggest science and technology news stories that will be happening this year with 51¶¯Âþ’s 2024 preview
TOPSHOT - A passenger wearing a protective face mask waits for his train at Hua Lamphong Central Railway Station in Bangkok on January 4, 2021, as health officials in Thailand announced on Monday 745 new Covid-19 coronavirus cases, the country's highest daily figure since the start of the pandemic. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP) (Photo by MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Mathematics

This excellent guide to the science of uncertainty is very welcome

Adam Kucharski's new book Proof is a life raft in a sea of fake news and misinformation

Culture

Abstract glass sphere shapes with cyborg head. 3D generated image.

Technology

Brilliant sci-fi novel shows robots coming to grips with emancipation

Culture

The physicist on a mission to spark a quantum industrial revolution

Physics

The physicist on a mission to spark a quantum industrial revolution

Features

THE OA Brit Marling Season 1 Episode 6

Comment

Rediscover The OA, a TV show with echoes of late director David Lynch

Culture

The best new science fiction books of March 2025

Comment

The best new science fiction books of March 2025

Culture

Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

Environment

Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

Culture

New Scientist Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

Comment

51¶¯Âþ Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

Culture

Physics

'Galloping' bubbles could act as tiny robotic vacuum cleaners

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Couple waiting at airport Description Couple sitting, waiting at the airport behind small squared glass wall, evoking a mirage, memory and dreams in blue and grey tones. Zurich, Switzerland. 2009

Mind

Sci-fi thriller Dissolution smartly interweaves time travel and memory

Culture

Electrodes made from bread could replace metal conductors

Technology

Electrodes made from bread could replace metal conductors

Wholemeal bread can be shaped into carbon electrodes that could replace traditional metal conductors in electrical devices

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Space

When did time begin? Hint: It wasn’t at the big bang

Features

Video

Adrian Tchaikovsky talks aliens, entomology and new book 'Alien Clay'

Video

Technology

Documentary-maker films the fallout as her husband opts to be a cyborg

Culture

Physics

The perfect boiled egg takes more than half an hour to cook

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