Ask HN: What scientific breakthroughs are you most excited for in 2013?

Posted by irollboozers on Sunday December 30, 2012 @03:31PM
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Hi HN!

I am just wondering what areas of research we can expect to make large strides in 2013? What are some exciting opportunities? Are there any really exciting scientists and researchers to watch out for?

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Re:Ask HN: What scientific breakthroughs are you most excite... by morjanoff on Sunday December 30, 2012 @07:27PM (#4987713)

Some of the hi tech food science investments made by Khosla Ventures could be interesting. Especially into sweets and also non-meat.

By changing the way we produce food we become much more self reliant rather than using up natural resources that are destructive.

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Re:Ask HN: What scientific breakthroughs are you most excite... by InclinedPlane on Sunday December 30, 2012 @05:18PM (#4987340)

The evidence for neutralinos as the primary contribution to dark matter is stacking up, this may solidify in 2013 which would be quite exciting.

And we should get a big batch of new planet detections from Kepler, which should include a fair number of planets in more Earth-like orbits.

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Re:Ask HN: What scientific breakthroughs are you most excite... by bjourne on Monday December 31, 2012 @12:35AM (#4988519)

The Higgs Boson story will be very interesting to follow. What new physics can it generate and will string theory be able to adapt to it? Then we have Shinichi Mochizuki's claimed proof of the ABC conjecture that mathematicians will try to verify.

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Re:Ask HN: What scientific breakthroughs are you most excite... by S4M on Monday December 31, 2012 @07:05AM (#4989108)

Not exactly a scientific breakthrough, but I am really interested in the progress of Curiosity in Mars.

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