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In this talk I will highlight a selection of science topics for which the SKA Observatory is expected to make major progress. The SKA telescopes, SKA-Low and SKA-Mid have been designed to be the largest radio inteferometers in each of their frequency ranges (50 - 350 MHz and 0.35 - 15.4 Ghz, respectively) and are expected to deliver transformational results in a broad range of topics, ranging from the distant era of the first stars to the nearby Sun, and from measuring the gravitational wave background with pulsar timing to discovering the building blocks of rocky plants. I will give special attention to the Cosmic Dawn/Epoch of Reionization where current facilities (JWST, LOFAR) are revealing tantalizing clues about the emergence of the first generations of stars and galaxies and which is one of the research areas SKA-Low is expected to have a major impact.