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The year ahead • From biodiversity to space travel, here are our predictions for 2022

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Looking to the future • From the pandemic to space exploration, New Scientist looks forward to the big stories of 2022

1 The rise of supergrids • There is growing momentum to use high-voltage cables to connect power grids around the world, says Adam Vaughan

2 mRNA technology may treat stubborn diseases

3 Alzheimer’s drug debate • Controversy over the first drug designed to treat the cause of Alzheimer’s will continue, reports Clare Wilson

4 The Large Hadron Collider comes back online

5 A chance to help nature • The COP15 UN biodiversity summit will be an opportunity to protect more land and oceans, finds Adam Vaughan

6 The year of a quantum breakthrough – maybe

7 The virus will evolve further • More SARS-CoV-2 variants are inevitable. Michael Le Page reveals what to expect from them

8 Blasting off to the moon, Mars and an asteroid called Psyche

Climate change’s shadow • Polls show that global warming has rocketed up the priority list for the public, but there is still much to do, says Adam Corner

No planet B • A big year for wildlife China will host COP15, the UN Biodiversity Conference, in 2022, making it the most important year for the environment since 2021, writes Graham Lawton

Unsung heroes

Editor’s pick

Books for a brighter day • It’s time to not only marvel at our world, but to think seriously about protecting it, says Simon Ings in his round-up of the best non-fiction out this year

Sci-fi: 10 top reads for 2022

The best films and TV

The indulgence effect • Changing the way we perceive healthy food may be the secret to successful dieting, finds David Robson, thanks to an ironic consequence of the mind-body connection

What’s your food mindset?

Missing nutrients

For peat’s sake • Exploitation has decimated the world’s carbon-storing peatlands. The race is on to restore them, finds Alasdair Lane

Protecting pristine peatland

Clock watchers • We use them to measure time’s passage, but now it seems a closer look at clocks could transform our understanding of the fourth dimension, says Miriam Frankel

Triangulating Triangulum • The new year is the perfect chance to see the most distant galaxy visible to the naked eye, says Abigail Beall

Puzzles

The back pages Almost the last word

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