• Question: Have any of you found anything new, discovered something?

    Asked by bluelew2000 to Andrew, Daniel, Hayley, Natalia, Peta on 18 Nov 2011. This question was also asked by rebeccacarey.
    • Photo: Daniel Scully

      Daniel Scully answered on 14 Nov 2011:

      The experiment I work on in Japan might have!

      We’re trying to find out whether particles called “neutrinos” change between their different types. We *almost* managed to measure it before the Japanese earthquake in March closed the experiment down. We’re starting again in January so hopefully we’ll discover it soon!

    • Photo: Hayley Smith

      Hayley Smith answered on 14 Nov 2011:

      It wasn’t exactly new, but during my final year at university I managed to get the radio telescope working to detect methanol in space and I was the first person in the department to get this working – so that was quite nice being the first to directly observe methanol in space, from York! (Although others had discovered it many times before from other telescopes, but a small step for me!)

      When I work on the particle accelerator at work we’re always discovering new things about how the machine works and it’s also helping other scientists to discover things too.

    • Photo: Andrew Cairns

      Andrew Cairns answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      One of the experiments we did last year caused quite a lot of excitement in a very small group of chemists, which was quite nice! The material we made expands when you put pressure on it much, much more than anything else in the world.

    • Photo: Natalia Parzyk

      Natalia Parzyk answered on 18 Nov 2011:

      I’ve got few quite promising experimental results from my superconducting materials (they behaving unusual than different superconductors) and that’s quite certain that sth interesting and new is going one but still need lots of work to see what’s exactly going one

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