Question: Would you rather win a Nobel prize for your amazing space discovery or would you rather find a cure for Ebola?

Robert Bowles answered on 11 Nov 2014:

I’d rather find a cure for Ebola. Saving lives would be more rewarding. But maybe I could win a nobel prize for that. Ebola is a virus and cures for viruses are very hard to find. Most treatments we have for viruses are vaccines which protect us from the virus in the first place. They stimulate our own immune systems to fight off the virus by exposing our body to it and so stop us getting sick rather than curing us once we are sick.