• Question: have you been doing exirment

    Asked by anon-198283 to Srinath, Natasha, Nana, Luisa, Gautam, Alex on 12 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Srinath Kasturirangan

      Srinath Kasturirangan answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      Yes! I work in the lab hands on doing experiments and I get to analyze the data and come up with conclusions that could validate or nullify the initial hypothesis. Some experiments work, most don’t! The trick is to persevere and not give up hope. As Robert Bruce once said – try, try till you succeed!

    • Photo: Alexander Allen

      Alexander Allen answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      I am constantly in the lab; there is almost no time that I am not in there. My current experiment is looking for C60 on surfaces. C60 is a collection of 60 carbon atoms arranged exactly in the same pattern you see on a football.

      They look pretty cool when you look at them. I don’t have any high resolution images but I have a couple of these molecules gathering in a row on a surface:

      When we do lots of tests within the experiment we will write a paper and publish our findings. This is the bread and butter of a scientist’s life!

    • Photo: Natasha Dowey

      Natasha Dowey answered on 14 Mar 2019: last edited 14 Mar 2019 10:30 am

      I do experiments at the moment on a computer- I have been running computer models that try to recreate the conditions under the ground, to better understand where we may be able to find oil and gas. At the moment I’m studying the Red Sea, which is interesting because it is currently being “unzipped” as the Arabian Plate and the African Plate move apart from each other. It’s a very hot part of planet Earth!

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