What is your favourite part about science?

Millie

how does air get trapped under the skin sometimes after operations and cause surgical ephysemia

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do you think we should have to pay for our healthcare like in the US? if we did pay for this treatment would the

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who called it science

suzie and liam

why does time travel seem so silly when it is possible( travelling cloose to the speed of light slows time) and when

answerIs42

How come some people are allergic to things and others aren’t?

Lilya

If the universe is expanding it must be expanding into something what do you think it is expading into?

Squiddy

How do we get rid of cancer ? Is there a cure ?

_Ma.ddy

Do you think that technology is evolving faster than we as humans can keep up with? There it will surpass us?

Science4lyf

If you could ask for any amount of money, how much would you want?

Silversurfer1000

Do you believe there is a mind or do you believe there is only a brain?

Anna

What is consciousness?

Hanshikaa

Which scientific discoveries, in your opinion, have been the hugest and most significant over the past 10 years?

FreyaScott

What will happen when we run out of fossil fuels?

Science4lyf

Do you think human waste can be used like camels’ to create fuel?

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About the Ytterbium Zone

Ytterbium, pronounced [ee-tur-bee-um], is a lanthanide metal and the 70th element in the periodic table. Its name comes from the Swedish village of Yyterby, where a sample was first discovered, and it is one of the rarest of the ‘rare earth’ metals.

Ytterbium is used as the basis of some atomic clocks, These extremely accurate clocks count the microwave signals caused by electrons jumping around inside the atom, and clocks using ytterbium are the most stable in the world. Radioactive ytterbium is also a useful source of gamma radiation used in medicine.

This is a general science zone, where we will meet five scientists from different areas of science.

There is a scientist who is looking at the tools that bacteria use to get inside our bodies, another who designs software for powerful supercomputers that can simulate a universe, and another who is trying to understand how children can learn languages easier than adults. There is also a scientist who analyses samples of chemicals that come from space to understand how life on earth started, and another who studies how a parasite changes the colour of its insect host to make it less appetising to mice.

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