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- New Scientist prepares to celebrate its 70th anniversary at the 10th annual New Scientist Live event in London, using the occasion to champion the role of trustworthy, sceptical science journalism
- The 2016 Paris Agreement's 1.5°C global warming target was breached for the first full calendar year in 2024, with 2026 projected to surpass that record amid heatwaves, wildfires, and landslides
- Donald Trump's second term has featured stronger anti-science rhetoric than his first, driving funding cuts and misinformation on health and the environment
- AI is already reshaping work, warfare, and news consumption, with some AI developers themselves now warning the technology could threaten humanity
- Audiences increasingly rely on pre-digested AI summaries and social media pundits, a shift the outlet calls an existential risk to news publishers
Why it matters: As climate records fall, anti-science funding cuts accelerate, and AI rewires how audiences find news, trusted science outlets face a paradox: more essential than ever yet more economically threatened. New Scientist is betting quality journalism survives the AI summary era — but the publication itself concedes that no news publisher is immune to the audience shift now underway.
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