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In middle school, we spend much of our time learning science that has been known to humans for 100 years or more. While some elements of the curriculum may have evolved more recently (like new details about how cells work, or the ways that the immune system responds to disease, or tweaks to evolutionary theory), most of what we study would have been known to scientists in 1913. We never get the opportunity to ask some of the most profound questions that cutting edge scientists are working on. Here's a fascinating article listing 10 of the most profound questions that science may (or may not!) be able to tackle over the next hundred years. The article pulls the questions from a book called, The Big Questions in Science: The Quest to Solve the Great Unknowns by Mun Keat Looi, Hayley Birch and Colin Stuart. Check out the article below and let me know what you think. Which of these questions do you think are important? Which do you think science will be able to find an answer to?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/09/10/221019045/the-10-most-important-questions-in-science
In middle school, we spend much of our time learning science that has been known to humans for 100 years or more. While some elements of the curriculum may have evolved more recently (like new details about how cells work, or the ways that the immune system responds to disease, or tweaks to evolutionary theory), most of what we study would have been known to scientists in 1913. We never get the opportunity to ask some of the most profound questions that cutting edge scientists are working on. Here's a fascinating article listing 10 of the most profound questions that science may (or may not!) be able to tackle over the next hundred years. The article pulls the questions from a book called, The Big Questions in Science: The Quest to Solve the Great Unknowns by Mun Keat Looi, Hayley Birch and Colin Stuart. Check out the article below and let me know what you think. Which of these questions do you think are important? Which do you think science will be able to find an answer to?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/09/10/221019045/the-10-most-important-questions-in-science