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Topic Suggestions: Sciences

A guide to topics that could be developed into research projects or speeches, arranged by subject areas or categories

Topics (A - G)

  • acid rain

  • animal testing

  • animal reintroduction

  • antibiotics, overuse of

  • bacteria

  • beach erosion

  • biodiversity

  • Big Bang theory

  • biological/chemical warfare

  • black holes

  • Bohr’s radius

  • butterfly migration

  • carbon dating

  • chemical carcinogens

  • cloning

  • conservation of natural resources

  • coral reefs

  • Dismal Swamp

  • DNA

  • droughts

  • earth characteristics

  • earthquakes

  • ecosystems

  • ecotourism

  • endangered species

  • energy production

  • estuaries

  • evolution

  • farms

  • fertilizers and the environment

  • food irradiation

  • geographic analysis and mapping

  • genetic engineering of food and crops

  • global warming

  • greenhouse effect

topics (H - Z)

  • Higgs boson

  • honeybees

  • human brain development

  • hurricanes

  • intelligent databases

  • invasive species

  • light and matter

  • locavore movement

  • mass extinctions

  • microbes

  • nanotechnology

  • natural resources

  • oceans and coastlines

  • oil spills

  • organic farming

  • ozone depletion

  • penicillin

  • pesticides

  • pollution

  • quarks

  • radioactive waste

  • rainforest

  • red tides

  • scientists

  • stem cell research

  • sunspots

  • testing on animals

  • toxic dumps in the ocean

  • UFOs

  • viruses

  • water conservation

  • water supply and demand

  • water quality

  • wetlands restoration