at the minute I'm really interested in the synthetic meat that both Bill Gates and Elon Musk are funding research into, as a meat lover and someone who actually cares about the welfare of animals I would love for the product to become affordable and sustainable.

In the realm of the fantastic, AI (AGI), theoretical propulsion systems (EM drive, Alcubierre warp drive, etc...).
In closer proximity to the here and now, I’m really interested in the emerging study of the microbiome (microbiome... ology? I don’t know, but remember where you saw it first). I believe that we will be blown away when the field comes into maturity and I anticipate that we’ll find that the microbiome effects our physiology and psychology in profound and earth-shattering ways.

I don't follow science much, discovering new species, rediscovering species thought extinct, the idea that the speed of light is actually not a constant based on mitigating factors, the breakthroughs with the large Hadron collider, experiments in teleporting photons, and super high speed cameras that can actually show the progress of a beam of light through a bottle of water.

Donald Trump...