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SpaceX Crew Dragon

Mars rovers and crew capsules: Your guide to 2020 in space travel

18 December 2019

2020 will be a big year for space missions - download your cut-out-and-keep guide to everything happening in orbit and beyond


What to expect from the cutting edge of science and tech in 2020

What to expect from the cutting edge of science and tech in 2020

18 December 2019

From anti-ageing drugs to self-driving cars and long-lost human ancestors, New Scientist experts reveal what the biggest science stories will be in 2020


Engravings in bone

We discovered a possible Denisovan artistic masterpiece in 2019

18 December 2019

Denisovans, an ancient cousin to humans, may have made engravings on a bone 100,000 years ago


A sign warns people of measles

2019 saw the tragic and unnecessary return of measles in the US

18 December 2019

Once deemed a problem of the past in rich nations, the deadly infection has made a huge comeback, reports Chelsea Whyte


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This psychedelic turtle embryo won a photography prize in 2019

18 December 2019

Teresa Zgoda and Teresa Kugler stitched together hundreds of images to make an award-winning picture of a turtle embryo


Car Upside Down

Driverless cars and the other biggest sci and tech fails of the decade

18 December 2019

Whether it was driverless cars, lab-grown meat or faster-than-light neutrinos, some things just didn't live up to the hype in the 2010s


Porphyromonas gingivalis bacteria

I'm testing an experimental drug to see if it halts Alzheimer's

18 December 2019

Steve Dominy led a landmark study that linked gum disease bacteria to Alzheimer's disease. He tells New Scientist why we should stop treating medicine and dentistry separately


SpaceX's Starship spacecraft

Images from around the solar system taken in 2019

18 December 2019

China's lunar rover raised a little garden on the far side of the moon and Japan's lander visited an asteroid this year


A prototype of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft

2019 was the year we got serious about walking on the moon again

18 December 2019

Five decades after Apollo 11, 2019 was the year we started to focus on how to get humans back on the lunar surface, says Leah Crane


Mark Zuckerberg

Big tech data abuse capped off Silicon Valley's decade-long fall

18 December 2019

With record fines dished out over tech firms' use of personal data, and their public images becoming increasingly tarnished, 2019 was the year the world started to turn against its tech giants, says Donna Lu


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