• Question: Hello Everyone what is you favourite subject in Science?

    Asked by jadikins2 to Ben, Dave, Ed, Sam, Susana on 17 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by njade, catherineclowes, curlysue2000, 11dsmith.
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      Ed Lowe answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      Hello,
      If you mean choosing between physics, chemistry and biology it’s a bit difficult to say since they all tend to bleed together in our field!
      I’ve always been interested in trying to figure out how things work and for that reason at school physics was my favourite – but that said, the things I want to figure out are mostly living things so that would be biology… so I suppose you could say that physics is the method and biology is the context.

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      Benjamin Hall answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      Plant science.

      Plants are fantastic and we wouldn’t be on this planet without them acting as little oxygen factories, converting sunlight into the carbohydrates that fuel us.

      Their biology is fantastic. They can’t move and they don’t have an immune system with cells that can move like us, yet they can still fend off diseases that try to infect them. Isn’t that amazing?

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      Sam Horrell answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      I’ve always been more of a biologist than anything. During my undergraduate degree I specialised in Infection and Immunity and they were some of the most fascinating lectures I’ve ever listened to. If I could get job in a lab doing structural biology of proteins involved in regulating the immune system I’d be a very happy scientist.

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      David Briggs answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      Hello!

      Biology. I like Physics and Chemistry to, but Biology is so interesting and so fantastically complex that I don’t think you can beat it.

      I used to study how cells crawl around – cells crawl around inside you all the time – but the process for each cell to move even a small distance is so unimaginably complex – we still don’t fully understand it – but this is happening millions of times a second in you right now and you don’t even need to think about it or anything like that. Amazing.

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      Susana Teixeira answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      Biology and Chemistry, somewhere in the middle I guess?

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