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Asked by izzywizzy1996 to Chris, Emily, Martin, Natalie, Tamsin on 16 Mar 2010 in Categories: About.
Question: What is one of the most intresting things that you have found out about your work?
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Chris Cooper answered on 16 Mar 2010:
I found out that a gas that comes out of the back of cars (nitric oxide) can control how our body consumes oxygen gas
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Martin Coath answered on 17 Mar 2010:
I am sure I answered this question somewhere but maybe I am just folding under the pressure of answering questions! 🙂
Some colleagues on the same project as me discovered that new-born babies have a sense of rhythm. That may not sound like much but to a neuroscientist this is a big deal!
They were able to prove using babies that were just a few hours old (don’t worry – they were with their mums and sleeping peacefully throughout the experiment) that our brain picks up patterns in beats and spots when they change from the moment we are born – even when we are asleep!
There isn’t a super-surprised smiley or I would use it!
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Emily Cook answered on 17 Mar 2010:
The more I find out about the human body and all the things that can go wrong with it , the more I am amazed that we evolved at all and that any of us are still alive – amazing.
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Natalie Stanford answered on 17 Mar 2010:
One of the most interesting things I’ve found out about my work is not really a scientific discovery, it was more about the way science works. I always imagined that scientists spent years locked in a room on their own trying to work things out. In reality we work in offices that have lots of different people in them. We all study slightly different things so we get to talk a lot about our work to each other and really help each other out with finding interesting avenues of study, and even understanding some areas of science we may not be so good at ourselves. It’s impossible to get bored when I’m in work.
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