What is the newest branch of science? Are there possibly any new branches of science on the horizon?
Astrobiology is movin’ on up.
Stephen Wolfram wants to change all of science in his book A New Kind of Science.
Genetic Engineering has to be up there as one of the newest branches.
Genetic programming/design (not anything to do with genetic engineering) is fairly new, isn’t it?
And Quantum computing.
APT all over again, well, sort of.
Oops, wrong thread; sorry.
Information theory and Network theory. Though when I think about it they seem really more mathematical.
General Relativity is not new but observational GR science is new (one LIGO go online).
LIGO is online, but the data analysis is still a little buggy. And on a similar note, precision cosmology is also a recent thing (as in, within a few months ago). But I’m not sure if those count as new sciences, or just new developments of older ones.
Astrobiology I would accept as new, but I wouldn’t really call it a science until we actually detect any extraterrestrial life. And there’s no telling when that will happen.