News & Views item - July 2005

 

 

125 Questions. (July 4, 2005)

   

 

  The Journal Science's Twenty-five Most Salient Questions -- No order of Priority
For subscribers to Science the questions below link to thumbnail explanations

What Is the Universe Made Of? How Much Can Human Life Span Be Extended? Are We Alone in the Universe? How Did Cooperative Behaviour Evolve? Do Deeper Principles Underlie Quantum Uncertainty and Nonlocality?
What is the Biological Basis of Consciousness? What Controls Organ Regeneration? How and Where Did Life on Earth Arise? How Will Big Pictures Emerge from a Sea of Biological Data? Is an Effective HIV Vaccine Feasible?
Why Do Humans Have So Few Genes? How Can a Skin Cell Become a Nerve Cell? What Determines Species Diversity? How Far Can We Push Chemical Self-Assembly? How Hot Will the Greenhouse World Be?
To What Extent Are Genetic Variation and Personal Health Linked? How Does a Single Somatic Cell Become a Whole Plant? What Genetic Changes Made Us Uniquely Human? What Are the Limits of Conventional Computing? What Can Replace Cheap Oil -- and When?
Can the Laws of Physics Be Unified? How Does Earth's Interior Work? How Are Memories Stored and Retrieved? Can We Selectively Shut Off Immune Responses? Will Malthus Continue to Be Wrong?

 

The next 100 questions are also listed in Science Vol. 309 July 1, 2005.

 


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