The Unsolved Riddles of Reality

Philippines
January 13, 2007 1:29am CST
Top 25 of 125, according to Science Magazine-07.01.05 *What Is the Universe Made Of? *What is the Biological Basis of *Consciousness? *Why Do Humans Have So Few Genes? *To What Extent Are Genetic Variation and Personal Health Linked? *Can the Laws of Physics Be Unified? *How Much Can Human Life Span Be Extended? *What Controls Organ Regeneration? *How Can a Skin Cell Become a Nerve Cell? *How Does a Single Somatic Cell Become a Whole Plant? *How Does Earth's Interior Work? *Are We Alone in the Universe? *How and Where Did Life on Earth Arise? *What Determines Species Diversity? *What Genetic Changes Made Us Uniquely Human? *How Are Memories Stored and Retrieved? *How Did Cooperative Behavior Evolve? *How Will Big Pictures Emerge from a Sea of Biological Data? *How Far Can We Push Chemical Self-Assembly? *What Are the Limits of Conventional Computing? *Can We Selectively Shut Off Immune Responses? *Do Deeper Principles Underlie Quantum Uncertainty and Nonlocality? *Is an Effective HIV Vaccine Feasible? *How Hot Will the Greenhouse World Be? *What Can Replace Cheap Oil -- and When? *Will Malthus Continue to Be Wrong?
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