• Question: What is the most fascinating thing you have learned?

    Asked by sago532duds58 on 18 Feb 2026. This question was also asked by beds532cups36.
    • Photo: Amrit Phull

      Amrit Phull answered on 18 Feb 2026:

      My absolute favourite thing I ever learned was about electric machines. If you supply it with electricity, it will turn – a motor in an electric car does this. If you turn the machine, it generates electricity – a generator in a wind turbine does this. But they are both the same thing, a motor and a generator are types of electric machine! How cool is that?

    • Photo: Jenny Power

      Jenny Power answered on 19 Feb 2026:

      I find it really fascinating that the same equations that are used to predict whether a couple will stay married or get a divorced are the same equations that can be used to predict whether two countries will go to war!

    • Photo: Nazia Bannister

      Nazia Bannister answered on 20 Feb 2026:

      That trees communicate with each other! They use fungal filaments underground to share nutrients and use chemicals in the air to warn about dangers like herbivores are eating their neighbours!

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  • Photo: Michael C

    Michael C commented on :

    I think the best thing I learned was how bacteria swim. For something so small and what we think as simple, the mechanisms behind how their tail (called a flagellum) works is amazing. It’s so complex and intricate like a tiny motor made of protein.