There's the rub. I can look at physics and go, my pasta, they're building a RF pain generator to fit on a humvee to go to Iraq.
I can look at Chemistry and their working on a low temperature dry process fuel cell.
I won't mention stuff like the nanotubes, and half a dozen other amazing technolgies sprung from various physical theories.
Medicine is making tons of advances, any of them based on NS?
Were at the point of artificially inducing change in organisms, chimeras. We're doing ID right now.
NS does not seem that important, not when there are pasta questions.
DK
Yes, especially in the fields of epidemiology and genetics.
Darwinian Evolution is being used in computing. There is an active field called evolutionary computation.