The books and ideas that will shape the year ahead
3 January 2018
From human evolution to genetics, neuroscience to cosmology, New Scientist picks the books to look out for in 2018
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Cosmic couture: The urgent quest to redesign the spacesuit
3 January 2018
Astronauts venture into space wearing 35-year-old, sweat-stained relics. The $200 million, high-tech replacement togs are anything but down to Earth
The universe may be full of ex-moons flung from their home worlds
26 December 2017
Moons in other stellar systems may be hurled away from their planets up to 90 per cent of the time, leaving up to 100 former moons per star in the Milky Way
Earth was smashed by a rock the size of Mars to make the moon
21 December 2017
4.5 billion years ago, a rock called Theia crashed into Earth and formed the moon. Now we know that it was probably only about a tenth the mass of our planet
NASA plans a launch to Titan or a return to comet 67P in 2025
21 December 2017
In 2025 NASA will either launch a probe to bring back samples from comet 67P, previously visited by Rosetta, or send a drone-like craft to Saturn's moon Titan
Mars rocks may have drunk up all the water and doomed life there
20 December 2017
We used to think Mars lost most of its water to space when its atmosphere blew away. Instead, the water may have been sucked up by rocks that sunk underground
Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes
20 December 2017
The black hole firewall paradox has been vexing physicists for years. But if quantum laws lead to the creation of other universes, the headache disappears
