 |
Scientific Advancement Challenges and SolutionsThe following are a list of scientific advancement challenges and solutions. Click on a heading to read the full description of the challenge, add a solution or comment, and rate the challenge importance. Submit a new scientific advancement challenge by clicking on the Add a Challenge button. The most popular scientific advancement challenge are listed first. Voting on a challenge may move it up or down on the list. 7 21
  Creation of transgenic plants and animalsSolutions (2)In the 1990's, major concern arose over techniques have been developed to insert genetic material from one species of plant, bacteria, virus, animal or fish into another species with which it could ne... 1 7
Biological warfareSolutions (2)Bacteriological or biological agents of warfare are living organisms (or infective material derived from them) which are intended to cause disease or death in animals, plants, or man, and which depend... 5 10
Carcinogenic chemical and physical agentsSolutions (1) Comments (1)Some studies attribute up to 80% of all cancers can be attributed to environmental factors ("exogenous" cause rather than "endogenous cause"). This means they are not genetically triggered or an inevi... 0 5
34 38
Non-biodegradable plastic wasteSolutions (9) Comments (8)Plastic wastes present formidable problems as they are at present not biodegradable, are bulky and can resist incineration. Incineration in fact may not be possible due to production of noxious or tox... 1 5
Vulnerability of high technology systemsSolutions (2) Comments (2)Computers are widely used in private, commercial, and governmental operations to store vast quantities of information. In many cases the information constitutes a record vital to the continued functio... 1 3
Displacement of human intelligence by machine intelligenceSolutions (3) Comments (1)Current developments in cybernetics, robotics and machine intelligence indicate that within the foreseeable future (and possibly the lifetime of the next generation) such devices will have a thinking ... 1 3
Computer Monitor for Visually ImpairedSolutions (2) Comments (1)A breakthrough invention needed for helping visually impaired to touch the monitor and sense the content. Even if we design a primitive alpha-numeric device that emulates etched characters on it, indi... 3 5
Stop Malaria: How to Kill 10-day Old MosquitoesSolutions (1)Malarial mosquitoes quickly evolve to defeat pesticides. Recent research indicates that a solution which _only killed mosquitoes over 10 days old _ would stop malarial transmission without creating e... 0 2
No significant plans are in place if the internet ever broke down worldwide due to planted virus or natural disasterSolutions (1)If this occurred business would halt, doctors would be cut off from patient information, airports, law enforcement, governments all would be in complete chaos. Although some systems such as Os x and ... 1 3
Chemical contaminants of foodSolutions (2)Contaminants of major concern include: aflatoxins; PCBs; toxic metals (lead, cadmium, mercury, tin); organochlorine pesticides (aldrin plus dieldrin, DDT complex, hexachlorocyclohexane, lindane, hepta... 0 2
Corrosion of stoneworkSolutions (1)Stonework is corroding through the world mostly due to pollution of the atmosphere. While the rate of corrosion on structurally used stone may be very slow, a centimetre a century, this rate on decora... 0 1
Why does the universe expand?Edwin Hubble in studying distant galaxies discovered that the universe is expanding. This is commonly attributed to the big bag. I do not believe in the Big Bang. I read the book the Big Bang Never...0 1
Significant astronomomical objects to view via telescopeLight buckets and SHOOH as well as other web sites offer remote controlled telescopes that allow pictures to be taken. Many astronomers also take photographs using telescopes under their control. ...5 6
Spread of Australian Brown Apple MothSolutions (2)California goes through some kind of crisis, not being able to get rid of the apple moths, which represent a real danger to agriculture. The sticky traps put there to capture the moths are not enough... 3 4
Computer virusesSolutions (3) Comments (1)Computer virus programs are programmed to attach themselves to some software and replicate themselves onto other systems and spread. Whether the program is a harmless nuisance or a disastrous command ... 1 2
Bad practices hinder the advancement of scienceUntil the beginning of the last century science was done by a small group of people who knew each other personally and new each others work well. This offered a quality control against fraud and corru...0 1
The problem of being a good significant Problem solverSolutions (1) Comments (2)Ideaconnection posts significant meaning difficult and important problems that have economic or scientific impact. I would like to learn about tools for solving these problems. I am especially inter... 1 2
Carcinogenic consequences of food preparationFoodstuffs, such as vegetables, treated with fertilizer, pesticides and fungicides, may acquire carcinogenic (and mutagenic) properties when cooked or digested, even though the residues in the uncooke...1 1
Keeping up with scientifc advances in the literatureThe volume of scientific information is huge. There is lot of really interesting work to take in. I am speaking not just for the professional wanting to keep up with his field but also the student o...2 2
Unreliability of computer softwareSolutions (4) Comments (1)A computer program may consist of millions of lines of computer code, written by hundreds of people who each work on small segments of the program and an error as tiny as a misplaced semicolon can cau... 1 1
Secrecy in scientific researchSolutions (2) Comments (1)A considerable amount of scientific research is conducted in institutes or under contracts which preclude dissemination of the results to other than a select group. Scarce resources are allocated to r... 4 3
Chemical pollutants of the environmentAs modern man's dependence on chemicals for societal benefits has grown, the potential for widespread pollution or contamination has also increased. There are now some 70,000 chemicals on the commerci...5 4
Corrosion of iron and steelSolutions (4) Comments (1)Iron exposed to moist air or oxygenated water are corroded, leaving a red encrustation of iron oxide on the surface. Progressive rusting is a major source of failure of unprotected structural material... |
Architects of a New Dawn - Solutions
