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Asked by 982furk25 to Chris, Joanne, Kathryn, Kieran, Sarah on 9 Nov 2017.
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Kathryn Schoenrock answered on 9 Nov 2017:
That’s a hard question- I’ve discovered a lot of things being a scientist, but most of them aren’t new to science just to me :). So far the coolest thing I’ve found from my research is that small seaweeds that live within a bigger seaweed in Antarctica have very little effect on their host- so they live in what we call a mutualism or comensalism where one or two individuals benefit from living so closely together!
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Sarah Guerin answered on 9 Nov 2017:
I discovered that certain natural materials can be used as motion sensors, and that they can be better than sensors made from toxic materials like lead that are currently in electronic devices đŸ˜€
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Chris Werner answered on 9 Nov 2017:
Similar to Kathryn for me. I haven’t discovered anything new exactly but have learned many things whilst doing my work. Because its mainly climate models, you can really discover anything from them, but they are still very useful in a practical sense and investigate new ways of working with them.
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Kieran Fraser answered on 10 Nov 2017:
Good question – my answer is similar to Chris and Kathryn in that I haven’t discovered something new to the world of science, but I have discovered new applications of existing things. For instance, I applied a method of ‘fuzzy logic’ to solve the problem of delivering mobile notifications at better times. This hadn’t been done before and it worked (for the most part!) so I was super proud of it đŸ™‚
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Joanne Duffy answered on 10 Nov 2017:
I was very proud when an experiment I did last year – to prove using DNA that a virus was infecting my bacteria – worked. I had to write a 25 page thesis for my final year in university and I was so afraid it was going to all go wrong because nothing was working out for me, but that experiment proved that we had a good reason!
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