Could life evolve to adapt to a warmer globe? What would life be like for animals and humans when the average temperature is warmer by 5 degrees Celsius?
Is ethanol the answer to renewable energy? Will demand for corn as a fuel source ruin the soil and limit corn as a food source?
How can we capture and re-use heat generated by global warming?
Is it possible to stop global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, by chemically binding it for example?
Is there a relationship between global warming and the loss of the ozone layer?
Can plants solve our global warming problem?
Are we altering ourselves and our environment by eating and producing genetically engineered food?
Can we transmit energy wirelessly?
Evolution
With all of the technological and medical advances that have been made and are being made, will humans continue to evolve?
Could ethical principles be explained in terms of evolutionary biology?
What would happen if the human race became extinct?
Why do many professors present evolution as a proven theory when the evidence is, at best, conflicting?
Is there an evolutionary reason for subjective experiences?
Why does life have a need to exist?
Why did humans evolve with emotions?
What is beauty and why do we need it?
Why are humans the only species that evolved an intellect?
What is the evolutionary basis for skin color and race?
Are humans still evolving?
Where is human evolution heading?
How many species have humans caused to become extinct?
When will humans become extinct?
Animal and human behavior and biology
Why are robins’ eggs blue?
What is fear?
If the institution of marriage did not exist, would humans mate for life?
Why do some people fall asleep during movies no matter how much they slept before?
What triggers happiness at the molecular level?
Can one species of animal communicate clearly with another species of animal?
The 14th century plague wiped out more than half of Europe; will there be another?
Will bacteria eventually become drug resistant and wipeout all of humanity?
Why aren’t all human beings the same color?
What makes humans curious?
Why are humans the only animals that respond to rhythm and music?
Why do cats purr?
Why do we yawn?
Why do animals have stronger senses than humans? Can human senses be enhanced?
What are the genetics of curly hair? Is it dominant or recessive relative to straight hair? Is there more than one gene that affects hair texture?
How far can the human eye see?
What is the purpose of tonsils?
What is the biological basis of consciousness?
What is the difference between a pandemic and a plague?
Can avian flu be transmitted to all birds—even emus?
