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Book review

Environment

The most encouraging climate solutions and green technologies of 2024

Renewable energy continued to grow in 2024, and there were other hopeful developments in technologies aiming to reverse the rise in greenhouse gas emissions

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The best and weirdest photos of robots from 2024

Technology

The best and weirdest photos of robots from 2024

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Elon Musk speaks at a campaign rally in October 2024

Technology

From Tesla to Trump, Elon Musk had a very busy 2024

Analysis

A worker spraying chlorine in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2024

Health

Mpox became a global health emergency for the second time in 2024

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A fluffy longhorn beetle

Life

A festival of stunning animal pictures from 2024

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A man makes his way at a hill as African dust from the desert of Sahara covers the city of Athens, Greece, April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC2FC7ATEP85

Environment

Climate chaos accelerated in 2024 as we hit 1.5°C for the first time

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Health

2024 saw the first living people to receive pig kidney transplants

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https://x.com/alfrekjv/status/1789814301613588543 Sinaloa, Mexico, 2024

Space

Dazzling auroras lit up the skies in 2024 and we may see more in 2025

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MILTON, ON - APRIL 13: Professor Tim Patterson of Carleton University transports a frozen core sample at Crawford Lake on April 13, 2023 in Milton, Ontario. Patterson is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group and has been conducting research based on frozen core samples from the lake. He is among a group of scientists who think we have entered a new geological epoch. (Photo by Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Earth

The Anthropocene was officially spurned in 2024, but the idea lives on

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Noland Arbaugh by John Francis Peters, 2024

Technology

Elon Musk's brain-implant firm Neuralink did its first tests in 2024

Neuralink’s first two human trials grabbed headlines this year, but it still isn’t clear how the firm’s technology compares with other brain-computer interfaces

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Space

Space was for sale in 2024 as private missions led by Elon Musk boomed

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Health

Bird flu suddenly got serious in 2024, infecting dozens of people

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Video

Why Kelly and Zach Weinersmith are sceptical about a future on Mars

Video

Space

The best new science fiction books of 2024

Culture

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