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Wide view of the telescope mount inside the dome

Space

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

A massive telescope in Chile is set to begin operations in 2024, and once it is up and running the pictures will be extraordinary

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

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

Health

Premature babies could be treated with an artificial uterus in 2024

Technology

AI firms will face copyright infringement lawsuits in 2024

Illustration of Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lunar lander

Space

International fleet of spacecraft is heading to the moon in 2024

A road sign is posted near a parcel of land recently purchased by Flannery Associates near Rio Vista, California on September 15, 2023. A stealth campaign by Silicon Valley elites with a dream of turning a swath of California farmland into a new age city has ranchers who live here challenging their tactics as well as their motives. The project first surfaced when a mysterious buyer started gobbling up parcels of land in this rural outback between San Francisco and Sacramento. The buyer, first revealed by the New York Times in August, turned out to be a secretive outfit called Flannery Associates. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Society

The weird tale of California Forever, a tech billionaire instant city

Mathematics

The mathematically perfect table size for solving any jigsaw puzzle

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

Environment

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

Environment

Hurricane damage to forests could release huge amount of stored carbon

Technology

Artificial pain sensors could help robots avoid damaging themselves

A system that detects forces and interprets which stimuli have the potential to cause harm could imbue robots with a sense akin to pain

Pollution testing on the river Windrush pits science against sewage

Health

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

Earth

We might officially enter the Anthropocene epoch in 2024

Health

Probiotics helped reduce fatigue and memory loss from long covid