I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Boron Zone. It has a range of scientists studying all different topics. Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
One of the most interesting things about space to me that probably few people know about is that it’s not really empty. There are lots of different gases, mainly hydrogen, but also helium and oxygen out there between the stars, and even between galaxies. There’s also what astronomers call “dust”, which is not like dust on benchtops, but more like grains of minerals made up of silicon, magnesium or iron. My favourite dust is olivine: it’s a green mineral made up of all three elements listed; it’s found on Earth and in very “dusty” places where stars form.
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