• Question: What have you done this afternoon that was exciting in science?

    Asked by anon-240744 to Tom, Rebecca, Emily, Elspeth, Ben, Antoine on 6 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Ben Cropper

      Ben Cropper answered on 6 Mar 2020:

      Answering questions to curious students, right here on I’m a Scientist!

      As well as this, at the moment I’m trying to match up nuclear states that I can see in my data to ones that have already been seen in other experiments, to work out the energies and which states haven’t been seen before!

      https://www.nndc.bnl.gov/ensdf/

      Click here if you, too want to browse a giant database of every nucleus that we’ve discovered!

    • Photo: Tom Dally

      Tom Dally answered on 6 Mar 2020:

      I’m with Ben on this one. The most interesting thing has definitely been answering questions on here! The only other thing I have been doing this afternoon is using a special microscope to measure the legs, wings, and other body parts of some tiny wasps that we caught using our weather balloons last summer. We use these measurements to match up differently-shaped insects in the air to the different insect signals we can see using weather radar. Some of these wasps are less than 2mm long! You can check them out here: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dangerous-beauties-worlds-tiniest-insects.html.

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