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Asked by to Dre, Charli, Heather, Oliver, Becky on 19 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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Charlotte Flavell answered on 19 Jun 2014:
Hi again tylerbriany and ucantseeme123,
Unfortunately, my most amazing discovery is probably not one that you would find very interesting! Science involves systematically answering questions in a very precise and methodical manner. I can’t claim to have discovered anything that is truly new, just added to what we already know about memories.
I did think that I had discovered a new bit of the brain once during my PhD though – I was going to call it the “Flavell Nucleus” 🙂 It turned out it was just a funny looking brain 🙁
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Rebecca Williams answered on 19 Jun 2014:
Hi tylerbriany and ucantseeme123,
I haven’t yet made a discovery which is really big and amazing! I haven’t been a scientist for very long, so a I’m only just starting to make discoveries.I have made some small discoveries which I think are pretty amazing. I recently worked out how a volcano in Italy erupted 45,000 years ago by looking at the rocks that were left behind. A big cloud of ash, gas and rocks swept over the island and left it covered in volcanic glass! Luckily, there weren’t any people there at the time – they would have been frozen in very very very very hot glass!
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Heather Price answered on 20 Jun 2014:
Hi Tylerbriany and ucantseeme123,
I’m a bit like Charli and Rebecca….I’m still quite early on in my career so I don’t feel like I’ve made any huge discoveries yet, but I hope I will some day!
Probably the best thing I’ve discovered so far is about particles in the air. These things are really tiny – so small that most of the time you can’t see them unless there’s a lot in one place. I collected these particles from the air and did an experiment to see what happened when they were put on lungs. I found out that the really tiny particles were worse for your health than the bigger particles. These tiny particles come from the exhaust pipes of cars and trucks. So that’s why being in cities and towns with lots of cars and trucks can be bad for you.
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Oliver George answered on 20 Jun 2014:
I haven’t discovered anything that amazing yet which is kind of a shame. I think the most interesting thing I have found is that the microbe I work with is a bit rubbish at living on plants ;).
I have done some really amazing sciency things though. As I explained in my profile bit I was able to find living microbes living in really extreme conditions. The soil they were in was hotter than boiling water and it was super acidic too! It was amazing to get back to the lab and work with the samples and see all kinds of things growing from it.
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Andrea Cristini answered on 20 Jun 2014:
Like everyone else I too have not discovered anything that is unique. I have found evidence for something that other people have already shown, but in a different way, so I guess that is sort of a discovery.
As stars are layered, much like the earth, they have a core and mantle. Stars also sometimes have regions in the middle that are very hot and energetic, this causes them to become ‘convective’. This is the same as when you see boiling water (like in a kettle or a cooking pan) and what look like blobs of air going from the bottom to the top. Well in a star I found that the bottom of the ‘pan’ in the star is much ‘stiffer’ than the top. Much like a pan actually if you don’t put a lid on it, as then the bottom is metal and the top is just air. So the metal is much ‘stiffer’ than air.
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