Fascinating question. Why Science? I dunno. It just seems like such a bottomless subject. Like Music. You never really get "good" at it,  just find yourself asking lots more questions. A good understanding of science is a good understanding of facts. We live in a world full of rubbish, cheap talk, internet gossip and blah blah blah.  Science is fact.  And we are learning more facts each and every day about ourselves, each other and the world around, under and above us.  I find all of this most interesting.  So yea, science.  

​- Brad Gross.

Ahh, geology. The science of time and pressure. What's under your bed? Stinky socks? Lego? Dust? And what's under that?  Pipes, electrical wires? And under that? Rock? Miles of it. And under that?!?!?! A ball of magnetic molten magma. Next time you are on the internet, type in the word PANGEA. It's a word to describe when all the continents on earth were one big land mass. One big party. Then, as the earth cooled and spun, the continents, floating on a sphere of molten lava, started to spread out. Scientists called this GONDWANA. As they floated around (and they are still floating around, and moving) they create earthquakes, and volcanoes.  This type of earth science is called Plate Tectonics. India was floating around, and smashed into Central Asia, thus creating the Himalayas. As the cracks between the plates moooovvvveee, they occasionally let some of the magma seep out, oops. The plates push together and form a point, and the lava comes out, creating new land. The earth is covered with active volcanoes. Some people still live very close to them. Ask the folks in Pompeii if they are worried. They were when they got buried in ash, preserved for eternity. If you want to get up close to a volcano, learn more about geology, and take a few courses. Then go on a field trip to an active volcano, and take a whiff of a real crack in the earths bottom. You'll be glad you did.  

- Brad Gross.

Wolffia is the smallest plant in the world (nothing at all to do with the Wolf!) They are incredibly small, just a bit bigger than a grain of sand each. But they grow in big numbers together so it’s easy to see them. It grows on water so if you dipped your hand in it would look something like the picture above.
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And the best thing about these plants? They are edible! And quite nutritious. They are eaten in parts of Asia and you could probably fit around 100,000 plants inside your mouth at once. That’s a pretty good way of getting your ‘5 a day’ vegetables I think. I can’t promise it will taste nice.
 
- Ivan Teage.

‘General Sherman’ is the biggest tree in the world. Yes, it has its own name and is a ‘Giant Sequoia’ tree which is almost 1500 cubic meters in volume. That is the same size as 10 double decker buses or 1000 cows; or about 50 times the size of your bedroom. It is also 84 metres high, which is nearly as tall as Big Ben in London but not quite.
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It all depends how you measure ‘big’ of course!  There are taller trees (some are 115m high), and there are wider trees, but this one is probably overall the biggest and heaviest.  There were probably bigger trees in the past, and there may be a bigger tree out there somewhere still (let us know if you find it!).

- Ivan Teage.