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The recent most popular scientific achievements will be reviewed (standard model of fundamental particles, Bose-Einstein condensate in gases with temperatures cooled to very near to absolute zero and "stopped light", quantum teleportation and its implementations, optical metamaterials (photon crystal, materials with negative refraction index), carbon nanotubes and other nanostructures, human genome, cloning and GMO-s, horizontal gene transmission and its part in evolution, decoding of brain signals and neural prosthetics, under-ice lakes in Antarctica, planetary research: from Erath to Mars, to Titan and further on, increasing expanding of the universe and dark energy, large extra dimensions). A tiny bit speculating over topics like possible future discoveries will take place, including unsolved scientific problems, what have been successfully survived the last ten years (hidden mass, Higgs boson). What's the importance and meaning of the internet based enterprises like Wikipedia and Google Earth to science and society. Of course there wouldn't be enough time to go too deep into those topics — the best lecturer can do is to give the rough idea and the keywords to the audience so that they can improve their knowledge and carry on doing the research on their own.
Lecture (90 min).
Jaak Kikas
Teachers and High School students.
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