• Question: Also, has there ever been anything that u have discovered or found out that really shocked or surprised u? if yes then why? Thanks x

    Asked by annaaseferta to Kate, Kieren, Nicola, Rowena, Roy on 13 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Rowena Fletcher-Wood

      Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      I once found some gold mess in the lab so I did some analysis on it to see what it was. Turned out mostly to be copper oxides! I thought they were black or copper coloured!

    • Photo: Nicola Rogers

      Nicola Rogers answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      This may sound quite naive, and you can tell that I am not a biologist – but I was really surprised when I looked at blood under the microscope for the first time…. although you see it in text books, and you see the pictures of red blood cells, for some reason I was really fascinated when I saw them for myself – red blood cells really do look just like textbook pictures! And even though I know that blood is not a red liquid, rather red cells flowing in a clear fluid – I was still fascinate to actually see it!

    • Photo: Kate Nicholson

      Kate Nicholson answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      That a group of people in physics were trying to make graphene from dog poo. Some science is really odd! I was a bit grossed out by the idea – especially when they asked me to look at their samples using the Raman machine, but thankfully it wasn’t as bad as I was expecting. I think I was surprised that anyone could think up an experiment like that.

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