What ideas are set to transform our understanding of the world around us and our relationship with it? Here New Scientist looks at the advances that will really make a difference. We ask leading experts to tell us what will revolutionise their field and include some of our own ideas.

We begin with the coming revolution in biology, life and Earth: ideas such as DNA origami, super-evolution, brain maps and ultrasounding the planet. Then it's the turn of nature on its smallest and grandest scales. From new ways to probe the quirks of the quantum world to the computing technologies of the future to the latest thinking on the workings of the cosmos, what ideas, projects and trends are shaking up the worlds of physics, space and technology.