The world of

science

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Sci

ence

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life

Science? What is science? It is

a search for understanding.

Science has come to relieve

mankind from sufferings,

ignorance and to control

nature. Sometimes we forget

that it does so much for us. But

science has changed the world

in uncountable way. To make it

clear how deeply it is

interwoven with our lives, just

try imagining a day without

scientific progress. Just for

starters, without modern

science, there would be: no

plastic, no electricity, no

medicine, no modern

communication systems.

Nothing. So, you see that

science is a good subject to talk

about. Let’s do it.

The e

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We only think, that modern science

knows almost everything. In fact,

scientists have answered only a

small part of questions. But it is

only a matter of time before the

unsolvable becomes solved. Many

scientists of ancient time thought

the Earth was flat with a huge

water fall at the end. The solutions

of old problems have brought more

difficult problems to the modern

world and some day our children

will solve the problems that we

face today. Here are some of them:

The problems

EcologySerious diseases

Climatic changesUFOs

Clim

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anges

Climatic changes is really the most serious

problem of our time. It is

one of the most serious

scientific, economic threats, facing to the

Earth. There are many

factors that lead to climate changes: a greenhouse effect, carbon dioxide excess,

etc. One of the most

serious change nowadays is the Global

warming. Unfortunately,

all the problems are caused by the human

activity.

Clim

ati

c ch

anges

The climate has changed a lot over

the past 100 years. But what is

going to happen to the climate in

the next 10 years? Is it time to buy

air conditioners or heaters? Or

should we expect that our local

climate will change only a bit in the

near future? Noone really knows.

Most scientists expect, that

because of the raising of

temperature and the melting of ice

the sea level will rise. In the tropics

the shortage of rainfall is expected.

That will lead to the extinction of

many animal and plant species.

But what can we do to prevent this

crisis. The best answer is: “Think

globally and act locally.”

Ste

phen

Sch

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Stephen Henry Schneider, a

climatologist, was born in 1945

in New York City and grew up on

Long Island. After taking a

degree in Mechanical

Engineering at Columbia

University, he went on to take a

doctorate in Mechanical

Engineering and Plasma Physics

in 1971. He wrote articles to

scinetific journals. In 1992 he

moved to Stanford University,

where he held chairs in

Interdisciplinary Environmental

Studies and Biological Sciences.

Ste

phen

Sch

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He served as a member of the

UN's Intergovernmental Panel

on Climate Change from its

inception in 1988 until his

death. He died in 2010 of a

heart attack while flying to

London from a science meeting

in Stockholm. He succeeded in

researching climatic changes

and got many awards. The most

prestigious was the Nobel prize

in international peace.

The N

obel P

rize

and it

s org

aniz

er

Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish

chemist and inventor, was born in

1833 in Stockholm. After receiving

the education in St. Petersburg he

worked in his father’s company

developing explosives. In 1859 his

father went bankrupt and the

family returned to Sweden.

Nobel invented dynamite in 1867

and a smokeless gunpowder in

1887. Though he was a pacifist he

was labeled “a merchant of death”.

Perhaps to counter this label he

established the Nobel prizes, the

most prestigious awards in the

world. It is given annually for

outstanding achievements in

literature, economics, medicine,

chemistry, physics, international

peace.

Our modern life is closely

connected with science.

Does the science have the

future? Of course it has.

Science of the XXI century

will be fundamentally

different from the science

of the XX century. There

will be other supernatural

tasks. This is the theory of

risk management, neuroscience, and theoretical history. The

future of the science as a

social institution depends

on the successful solving of

these problems.

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