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Science Weekly

Our science predictions for 2024

Science Weekly

The Guardian

Science

4.21K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Last year was a bumper year for science news, with the rise of weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy, record-high global temperatures, not to mention an attempted orca uprising. So what will this year bring? Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss the big stories likely to hit the headlines and share their predictions for 2024. And environment reporter Patrick Greenfield reveals his top climate stories for 2024. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian. Get your morning mojo going with Mullah like Greek style.

0:17.0

Now with a new recipe, with Vitamin B6 and Vitamin D. Let's have it!

0:25.0

Mull-a-light, get the good going. 2023 proved a busy year for us on the science desk from a weight loss drug that took Hollywood by storm.

0:44.0

The drug is semaglutide, often known as Wagovey, an appetite suppressant popular with celebrities

0:50.4

like Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian.

0:53.0

To record temperatures and extreme weather events engulfing the planet.

0:57.0

The European scientists have said that 2023 left the records tumbling like dominoes confirming it was the hottest year ever recorded

1:06.9

And even some more unexpected stories orca uprising anyone?

1:11.5

Orca's off the coast of Spain and Portugal have been body-slaming boats chewing off their

1:17.0

rutters, spawning speculation that the Orca's might be out for revenge against humans.

1:23.0

So what can we look forward to this year?

1:26.0

Where could we see game-changing breakthroughs?

1:28.0

And what questions and challenges will new discoveries bring?

1:32.0

I'm the Guardian Science editor Ian Sample

1:35.0

and today on Science Weekly

1:37.0

we're taking a look at the stories we could all be talking about in 2024. To help make the predictions for 2024 I'm joined by science correspondent Hannah Devlin and

1:50.3

if memory serves he did a great job last year.

1:53.4

So let's start with some of the things we know

1:56.0

a schedule for the year ahead.

1:58.0

2024 is shaping up to be a sort of year of the moon

2:02.2

with more than 10 missions heading there.

2:05.2

Is this a new era of moon activity?

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