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What 2024 will look like, from moon missions to COP29

While 2024 will see more of 2023’s defining features, from record-breaking temperatures to advances in artificial intelligence, the year could also usher in a new space age and even a whole new epoch

27 December 2023

Year 2024 futuristic 3D render. Modern colours. WEB 3.0 colours.

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AS WE close out 2023, what awaits us in 2024? As any sensible New Scientist reader knows, the division of time into years is a fairly arbitrary business, marking only that Earth has completed a full orbit around the sun (yes, OK, give or take 0.256363004 days, pipe down there at the back please). As such, many of the big stories of this year, such as the rise of artificial intelligence and the growing danger of climate change, will remain the big stories of the next.

Yet it is hard not to imbue a new year with new significance.…

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