• Question: Have you discovered anything new?

    Asked by whew520sura on 28 Apr 2025.
    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 28 Apr 2025:


      That’s one of the drivers for what I do. I want to discover new stuff that no-one knows about. For example, we were the first to show that water molecules can move around on dust surfaces at temperatures as low as 20 K… 20 degrees above absolute zero. This is important in cold space environments.

    • Photo: Ioanna Bezirtzoglou

      Ioanna Bezirtzoglou answered on 19 May 2025:


      not yet – but hopefully in the next few months I will !

    • Photo: Camilla Cassidy

      Camilla Cassidy answered on 5 Jun 2025:


      I helped discover how climate change affects animals in the sea bed and their environment!

      When the world around them changes, animals change how they behave. For example, when there is less oxygen and more carbon dioxide, worms don’t move about as much. They make smaller burrows. These burrows play an important role in the chemistry of the sea bed. My research showed that different animals reacting in different ways has an effect on the whole environment through mechanisms like this.

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