Why is science important?

Adam Hart-Davis, Philip Ball, Armand Leroi and the new Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Prof. Marcus du Sautoy, are just some of the people whose contributions to this project will appear here soon. There’ll also be a cartoon strip from Viktor S. Poór, a video from students of the Imperial College Science Communication course and numerous audio podcasts. Why don’t you join them and answer the question “why is science important?”