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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
E8X75D Image concept of magnetic levitating above a high-temperature superconductor, cooled with liquid nitrogen.

Physics

Why we are finally within reach of a room-temperature superconductor

A practical superconductor would transform the efficiency of electronics. After decades of hunting, several key breakthroughs are inching us very close to this coveted prize

Features

Matt Damon in The Martian

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Jurassic Park to The Martian: 5 movies that get botany (mostly) wrong

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The best new science fiction books of May 2024

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The best new science fiction books of May 2024

Culture

A sample of cement made from the mineral olivine, which can also help sequester carbon during production.

Environment

Carbon-negative cement can be made with a mineral that helps catch CO2

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Space

How could we make a solar eclipse happen every day?

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Astronaut on strange, rocky alien planet.

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Two brilliant new novels from Adrian Tchaikovsky show his range

Culture

Space

Eclipse 2024: 5 of the best pictures of the total solar eclipse

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A time-sequence composite of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse

Space

Eclipse 2024 live: Watch the full NASA broadcast – latest

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Total eclipse of the Sun. The moon covers the sun in a solar eclipse.

Space

When is the next total solar eclipse visible from the UK?

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Eclipse chasers: Why NASA jets will pursue solar totality

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Eclipse chasers: Why NASA jets will pursue solar totality

During the total solar eclipse on 8 April, two of NASA's WB-57 jet planes, equipped with special instruments, will chase totality and give new insight into the sun's corona

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Space

5 solar eclipse activities to do with children

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Space

How a total solar eclipse in 1919 left physicists 'more or less agog'

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ESA’s Proba-3 mission will create an eclipse on demand to study sun

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Space

Eclipse 2024: When is it and where can I see it?

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