• Question: What is your favourite part about science?

    Asked by anon-188264 to Warren, Shanti, Pizza Ka Yee, Paul, Nadine, Alex on 7 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by anon-188261, anon-188256, anon-188641, anon-188643.
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      Nadine Mirza answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      My favourite part about science is getting to communicate it. When all the tough research is done and I’ve found the answer to the big problem I was challenging I absolutely love getting to write and speak about it, share it with the public. It gets me so excited!

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      Alex Reid answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      Hi, thanks for your question. I really like the collaboration between lots of different people for knowledge and information that can have a really positive impact on other people and the world around us. Science as system not only works, but it gets better all the time. The ouputs are really useful (medicine, technology, exploration) and it wouldn’t be possible without working together. It is this kind of spirit that the world needs more of, and it is embodied in science.

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      Paul Matusz answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      Hi, to me is the favourite part of science is improving people’s chances to fulfill their full potential and live happy, satisfied lives. So in relation to my work, I strive to understand how attention works in real world, to obtain the opportunity to equate learning opportunities to mostly healthy but disadvantaged children in normal schooling, as well as bringing back visual skills, including abilities to read and do basic and more complex maths to children who have problems with vision (like “lazy eye”) or those with dyslexia or even people with problems with moving.
      In one big project of mine we test if virtual reality games can be a potential new treatment for kids with “lazy eye”. Currently the existing treatments – like patching the dominating eye, up to 6h per day! – are very slow (years) and patients really dislike it. And they are not this effective. So if we can help these treatments by those involving fun games, that’d be amazing to me!

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