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Get ready to see a total solar eclipse in 2024 – here’s how
A bride and groom and their wedding guests watching a solar eclipse in Mexico Martin Zetina/AP/Alamy On 8…
Encryption upgrade in 2024 will keep data safe from quantum computers
We probably don’t need to worry about quantum computers being able to break encryption in 2024, but cryptographers…
2024 could finally see greenhouse gas emissions start to decline
Carbon emissions from fossil fuels could finally start to fall in 2024 Bilanol/Shutterstock Planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions have…
Europe plans to build the world’s fastest supercomputer in 2024
The exascale supercomputer JUPITER will be hosted at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany Forschungszentrum Jülich/Sascha Kreklau The…
Europa Clipper will launch to Jupiter in 2024 to explore its icy moon
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Gregory M. Waigand NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is due to launch in October 2024 and head towards Jupiter’s…
AI firms will face copyright infringement lawsuits in 2024
Tech giants are gearing up for a series of potentially bitter legal battles over claims they used copyrighted…
2024 will break the extreme temperature records set in 2023
An August drought in Villanueva, Spain, was one of many extreme weather events in 2023 ANDER GILLENEA/AFP via…
International fleet of spacecraft is heading to the moon in 2024
An artist’s impression of Intuitive Machines’s Nova-C lunar lander NASA In 2024, the world’s space agencies are shooting for…
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…
Premature babies could be treated with an artificial uterus in 2024
The EXTEND system has kept more than 300 preterm lambs alive Partridge, E., Davey, M., Hornick, M. et al. (2023)…