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Our annual Best of What’s New issue, packed with every innovation from 2017 that’s worth knowing about. From engineering to aerospace, medicine to machinery, toys to tools, it’s the ultimate cheat sheet for the future.

Time heals all wounds. And that’s the least it does for your body. Turns out, without our internal body clocks, we’d all be in serious trouble. So how can taking control of your “me time” at a biological level improve your health? Plus…

Asteroids are full of money! Well, they’re full of resources that can be turned into money, but new economic models show that Earth may not see a cent of this sky-bounty. Why? Plus…

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Jetting to London faster than the speed of sound. The technology exists, heck the military uses it all the time. So why can’t we? Is it just a matter of regulation, or sometihng else? Does supersonic air travel have a future for ordinary folks… or will it remain the exclusive domain of the rich?

 
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