NASA Delays Crewed Moon Missions | Top Technologies To Watch In 2024

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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With this week’s delays to Artemis II and III, astronauts likely won’t walk on the moon until 2026 at the earliest. Also, weight-loss drugs, AI, clean-energy tech and more: digging into MIT Technology Review’s annual list with executive editor Amy Nordrum.

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0:00.0	What are the top technologies to watch in 2024?
0:07.0	It's really been a wild year for AI.
0:09.0	What we called it on the list this year is AI for everything.
0:12.0	It's Friday, January 12th and on the list this year is AI for everything.
0:12.6	It's Friday, January 12th, and drum roll please.
0:16.8	Today is Science Friday. I'm Cyfry producer Kathleen Davis.
0:28.0	Each year MIT Technology Review releases a list of the top 10 innovations to watch out for.
0:34.4	This was super helpful for those of us
0:36.3	who want to stay up to date, but don't have the time
0:38.8	to go through every new thing that comes out.
0:41.8	We'll chat about super efficientefficient solar cells, new medications, and AI in just a moment. But first,
0:48.9	Ira talks to Casey Crown Heart about the biggest science stories of the week.
0:53.0	Space fans have got some, well, sort of bad news.
0:56.5	NASA's crude Artemis missions to the Moon are delayed.
1:00.5	Again, if you've been following this program since it was around in 2012, this may not
1:06.1	come as a shock, but they do highlight the key challenges NASA is facing and moving the
1:11.6	program forward.
1:12.9	Here to tell us more about this
1:14.8	and other top stories in science this week
1:17.2	is Casey Crownhart, climate reporter at the MIT
1:20.4	Technology Review.
1:22.0	She's based here in New York and actually in our New York
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