On the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the British Royal Society a survey has been carried out to find outthe scientific questions of greatest concernto British citizens. The results reveal that 80% claim acancer remedyand 60% consider that thepageIt should be another priority. 53% believe that science should contribute toincrease longevityin the next years. And a third of those surveyed said that scientists should carry outgreater efforts in the search for extraterrestrial life. However, only one in 10 people believe that space exploration should be a high priority for the scientific community. On the other hand, forhalf of the young people consulted, aged between 18 and 24 years,climate change should be the priority of the scientific community.
“There can be no better way to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society than by looking at thefuture of science, on the foundations of today’s investigation, “said its president, Martin Rees.
Science to come
Coinciding with the celebration of the anniversary of the Royal Society, the report has been presentedScience sees further, in which twelve prestigious experts discuss the most exciting areas of science to come: aging, biodiversity, knowledge and computing, cultural evolution, extraterrestrial life, geoengineering, sustainability, greenhouse gases , new vaccines, stem cell biology, uncertainty, and the science of the Web. In reference to the latter, Tim Berners-Lee, also a member of the Royal Society, assures in the report that the great advantage of the Web is that it is? A complex system but, unlike others that we study – the cell, the brain, the cosmos-, is it a system that we have designed and that we can improve?
