New Scientist - USA (2021-12-18)

Review of the year

Vaccination push

Billions of covid-19

jabs given in wealthy

countries p22

Protein structures

DeepMind’s AI

solved almost all

human proteins p23

Billionaires in space

New era of space

travel for those who

can afford it p24

Missions to Mars

Piecing together

new clues from

our neighbour p26

COP26’s impact

The Glasgow Climate

Pact will shape the

next decade p29

Climate activist Greta

Thunberg (pictured) derided

world leaders in September

for being all “blah blah

blah” and no action, but

November’s Glasgow Climate

Pact marked real progress

on curbing emissions and

adapting to warming.

This year also saw the

first malaria vaccine and

a leap forward in quantum

computing. The covid-19

pandemic ground on,

with uneven progress

on vaccinating the world,

while three different

missions explored Mars.

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of the

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