• Question: What is your most embarrassing moment as an science?

    Asked by Cadhla to Gabriel, Sarah, Sophie on 16 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Gabriel Balaban

      Gabriel Balaban answered on 16 Mar 2018:

      I had to admit that I had spent months building something wrong. It was a calculator to see how elastic the muscles in the heart are, and it didn’t solve the equations of elasticity that I wanted it to. Once I admitted my mistake I threw that calculator out and built one that worked.

    • Photo: Sophie Williams

      Sophie Williams answered on 16 Mar 2018:

      i accidentally threw away a sample that was 65 million years old once

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