• Question: what is your favioute subject in science and why?

    Asked by cooluk89 to Laura, Nicola, Norman, Thanasis, Sandra on 9 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by 10suttone, 10ashtonr, kirsty14.
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      Thanasis Georgiou answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      Physics.

      I’m a bit biased at this, since I’m a physicist, but trying to understand how our world works by just looking at the fundamental building blocks, atoms, electronics and other fundamental particles is just as interesting as it can get for me!

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      Norman Lazarus answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      Human physiology. To discover how our body functions under a load of different conditions from high mountains to under water and in the cold of the polar regions

    • Photo: Nicola Wardrop

      Nicola Wardrop answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      I like tropical disease epidemiology – there are lots of diseases which you can get in tropical parts of the world such as Africa, S America, which you can’t get in the UK. Some of them are really dangerous and can kill people, some will make people blind or disabled, and some will just make them a bit ill. Epidemiology is the study of diseases in groups of people rather than in individuals – it’s really fascinating to look at how many people in a population have the disease and then try to work out what is going on…is there something which makes some people more likely to get the disease than others?

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      Laura Soul answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      Geology! Lots of people think that it’s just studying rocks, or they haven’t heard of it, but it’s now a really broad and important subject. Geologists study earthquakes, volcanoes, fossils and evolution, oceans, climate change and loads of other things. So it’s like all the best bits of the science subjects you do in school all rolled into one.

    • Photo: Sandra Phinbow

      Sandra Phinbow answered on 12 Mar 2013:

      I like disease. And how that disease changes the cells in the body, what those cells look like and how we can visualise these changes.

      I quite like physics too – I’m interested in space science, but also about wave patterns, I like chemistry too.

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