• Question: What makes the science that you study more interesting than other forms of science and why?

    Asked by unknownsource to Emma, Jen, Joseph, Michael, Mona on 19 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Michael Taggart

      Michael Taggart answered on 19 Jun 2011:

      Physiology (the subject I study) deals with how things in the body work together – so it could be how proteins link together inside a cell, how different cells might communicate to each other, how organs perform very specific functions or how all the bits add together to let an organism (like you and me) exist. So it’s always pretty interesting to find out something new about why we are the way we are. It also means that by finding this out, we have a better chance of working out what goes wrong in diseases and then, in turn, we might be in a better position to design better treatments for those diseases.
      All that is interesting to me but I would like to think that I appreciate the value of other forms of science, and the efforts of other scientists, too 🙂

    • Photo: Jen Gupta

      Jen Gupta answered on 19 Jun 2011:

      Ooh that’s a really good question! Most scientists do experiments in a lab but in astronomy the universe is your lab which I think is really awesome! The galaxies I study will help us to understand really extreme physics that we can’t recreate on Earth in any lab. My research will hopefully help other scientists figure out how galaxies form and evolve. This will help us to know more about the galaxy that we are in (the Milky Way). Without the Milky Way, there could be no Sun and therefore no Earth for us to live on! That’s why I find astronomy so interesting!

      I do find lots of other science interesting as well though, I think most scientists do 😀

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