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
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Could the new coronavirus really kill 50 million people worldwide?
11 February 2020
No one can say for sure how widely the new coronavirus will spread and how many it will kill because there are still many key things we don't know - not least the wider impact on healthcare services
A quarter of all pigs have died this year due to African swine fever
5 November 2019
The hunt is on for a vaccine for African swine fever, after a quarter of the world's domestic pigs have died this year, including half of all the pigs in China
Sex-selective abortions may have stopped the birth of 23 million girls
16 April 2019
A huge analysis suggests sex-selective abortions have led to at least 23 million fewer girls born worldwide, but birth ratios are now returning to normal
WHO calls for ban on ‘virginity tests’, including those used by police
23 October 2018
The World Health Organization wants governments worldwide to ban the ‘virginity tests’ used by some police, doctors and employers to assess women and girls
Trump’s Iran U-turn could restart the global nuclear arms race
16 May 2018
The US has demonstrated that it cannot be trusted to stick to its word on arms control deals. The result may be a return to the dark days of growing nuclear arsenals
How your personality predicts your attitudes towards Brexit
9 July 2018
The first big psychological study of Brexit has revealed how age, personality, numeracy skills and mental flexibility are linked to different Brexit views
Coronavirus may have been circulating undetected in the US for 6 weeks
2 March 2020
A shared mutation in the covid-19 virus from two infected people who had no contact with each other suggests the coronavirus has been quietly spreading in the US for weeks
Covid-19: Our chance to contain the coronavirus may already be over
24 February 2020
We don’t know the sources of many of the covid-19 cases in South Korea and Italy, suggesting the virus is now spreading untraceably among communities
We discovered a coronavirus similar to the covid-19 virus 7 years ago
12 February 2020
The covid-19 virus is similar to a coronavirus detected in bats in China back in 2013, but we failed to act on the warnings of those who studied it