Science for Your Future

The 13th Annual Schools Science Conference was held on 20th April 2016 at University of Westminster

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Science for Your Future

The theme of the 13th Schools Science Conference is Science for Your Future

The objective is to highlight the exciting scientific developments that are changing all our futures

The results of the 100,000 Genomes Project mean that in the future all babies may have their DNA sequenced at birth. Pluto has been imaged by a space probe; Mars trips are being planned. New treatments are being developed for cancer. Bacterial viruses may replace antibiotics.

What will the future hold?

How will you contribute to science for the future?

Here is a timeline of key scientific developments to help put these achievements into context …

4th century BCE
Mandragora (containing atropin) was described by Theophrastus; later given prior to surgery or cautery
150s BCE
Seleucus of Seleucia:Discovery of tides being caused by the moon
9th C
Al-Kindi (Alkindus): refutation of the theory of the transmutation of metals
1020s
Avicenna’s The Canon of Medicine was published
1220–1235
Robert Grosseteste: Rudimentals of the scientific method (see also: Roger Bacon)
1242
Ibn al-Nafis: Pulmonary circulation and circulatory system
1543
Nicolaus Copernicus: Heliocentric model of the Solar System was defined
1675
Anton van Leeuwenhoek: Observes Microorganisms by Microscope
1676
Ole Rømer: First measurement of the speed of light
1781
William Herschel Announces discovery of Uranus, expanding the known boundaries of the solar system for the first time in modern history
1859
Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace: Theory of evolution by natural selection
1869
Dmitri Mendeleev: Periodic table
1898
Marie Curie: Discovers polonium, radium, and coins the term radioactivity
1905
Albert Einstein: Theory of special relativity
1907
Alfred Bertheim: Arsphenamine, the first modern chemotherapeutic agent
1925
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: Discovery of the composition of the Sun and that Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe
1927
Georges Lemaître: Theory of the Big Bang
1928
Alexander Fleming: Penicillin, the first beta-lactam antibiotic
1938
Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann: Nuclear fission
1943
Oswald Avery Proves that DNA is the genetic material of the chromosome
1953
Crick and Watson: Helical structure of DNA, basis for molecular biology
1964
Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson: Detection of CMBR providing experimental evidence for the Big Bang
1965
Leonard Hayflick: normal cells divide only a certain number of times: the Hayflick limit
1997
Roslin Institute: Dolly the sheep was cloned
2001
The first draft of the Human Genome Project is published
2012
Higgs Boson is discovered at CERN – confirmed to 99.999% certainty
2015
Traces of liquid water discovered on Mars
2015
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft becomes the first to visit Pluto
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Babies have their DNA sequenced at birth
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Mars colonised
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New treatments developed for cancer
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Bacterial viruses replace antibiotics
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Wounds healed by combining tissue engineering, bioengineering and nanotechnology
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Cities supported by sustainable technology
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Earth-like planets discovered