• Question: Why do u like science? xx

    Asked by hanna25 to Clare, Divya, Ian, Jess, Lewis on 8 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Lewis Dean

      Lewis Dean answered on 8 Mar 2014:

      Science is all about asking questions about the world around us and then trying to find the answers. It helps us find out about how things work. For me that is really cool.

    • Photo: Ian Hands-Portman

      Ian Hands-Portman answered on 8 Mar 2014:

      I love finding out new things and solving puzzles, working in science gives me and endless supply of new information and problems that need a solution, I won’t be the one that finds the answer just one of many that contributes to a bigger picture.

    • Photo: Jess Smith

      Jess Smith answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      Because science is exciting!

      One of my favourite things about science is the amazing scale. So scientists look at everything from super tiny things, like electrons, all the way up, through atoms, molecules, everything that we see and touch, mountains, countries, planets, stars, all the way up to the whole universe! And the amazing thing is how the very tinniest bits that we look at in science, have the ability to change the behaviour of the very biggest things that we look at. It’s pretty neat.

      I still get super excited by science that isn’t in my field. I went to a show at a planetarium last weekend and it still managed to blow my mind, even though I have been working in science since I left school. If anything, the more science I have done, the more exciting I find all science!

    • Photo: Divya Venkatesh

      Divya Venkatesh answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      It’s fun but it’s not cakewalk – I like that. It needs a lot of work, but it’s great when we get to the ‘aha!’. It keeps me on my toes. One might even find something that helps us understand the world better, or at least a new gene to give a crazy name to.

    • Photo: Clare Nevin

      Clare Nevin answered on 15 Mar 2014:

      Because science is in everything around us and it’s fun to find out how those things work! For me, finding out how the human body takes information about the environment in the form of external stimuli and uses it to regulate itself is amazing. A simple example of this regulation (homeostasis) is body temperature which is critically maintained in the body’s core at 37 degrees C: the essential temperature for enzymes to work. Temperature receptors on your skin detect when it is hot or cold and this sends a message to the brain to tell your body to either sweat to cool you down, or it tells the hairs on your body to stand up to trap air to insulate you.

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