• Question: As a scientist do you look at things differently because you know what they are really made of?

    Asked by Linz to Zarah, Kon, Kirsten, Jena, Freddie on 11 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Freddie Morrison

      Freddie Morrison answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      Yes! All the time and you can too. Next time you’re walking to school and you walk past a bush pick a leaf off, look at it as closely as you can and think about how this timy little piece of weird material had millions of boxes in it each doing a special job to help the whole plant grow.

      At the same time there is a war going on where you picked it as bacterial invaders from the air attach the broken stem and the leaf fights back.

      This applies to everything around you! It’s amazing

    • Photo: Jennifer Bates

      Jennifer Bates answered on 13 Nov 2016:

      Constantly! It’s very hard to walk passed something without thinking, I wonder how that is going to look in a hundred years? Which bits of that building are going to survive? Whenever there are roadworks I can’t help but look in and check that there is nothing in the trenches! It’s very exciting when you do spot something, and even when there is nothing I love looking at the layers formed by the road surface and the soils, and think that that is archaeology forming right there from our modern actions.

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