• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Physics:

    • WTF is Dark Matter?
    • Where antimatter?

    Chemistry/materials:

    • Better batteries
    • Better solar cells

    Biology/medicine:

    • What causes aging, and how do we stop it?
    • Cure cancer
    • More HHV vaccines
    • Extinct malaria
  • oyfrog@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Selfishly, as a biologist, I would like to see:

    • Reconciliation of rates of evolution that scales from microevolution to macroevolution
    • Accurate/reasonable estimation of lineage death rates for macroevolutionary diversification analysis
    • (extension of previous) Reasonably estimate fossilization probability for (more) accurate clade age estimates
    • Moving beyond phylogenetic trees (phylogenetic networks are a step in the right direction I think)

    As a citizen of Earth, I would like to see:

    • Actual plastic recycling that dramatically reduces the need for virgin petro-chemicals
    • A 3D printer beyond plastics (I think this kind of a thing, but I would like it to scale for consumers and industry)
    • A less massive battery that can be used for commercial flight
    • Better earthquake detection

    As a person who enjoys knee-deep sci-fi, I would like to see:

    • FTL travel
    • Futurama style heads-in-a-jar
    • A Dyson sphere or swarm
    • A hyperloop

    As a (frustrated) scientist I would like to see:

    • Society move beyond “societal utility” of scientific studies/discovery and embrace “science for the sake of science”
  • Nightsoul@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I want to see tiny batteries that can store a ton of power, or tiny engines that can pull energy from their surroundings. Would lead to soooooo many innovations.