“Ultimately the goal would be to create a postage stamp-sized device with integrated electronics that can detect if a person has malaria and at what stage”
"When you have devices, and sensors, and things (connected to the Internet), you have predictive maintenance, smart grids, you have improved water supply, food supply, supply-chain management, transportation to our cities, health care"
"Savvy businesses see sustainability and supply chain transparency as strategic business initiatives, critical in building customer trust and loyalty."
"The U.S. Army is developing a new type of suit that's capable of measuring vital signs, applying wound-sealing sprays and — most importantly — stopping bullets."
"By observing this planet with Spitzer and Kepler for more than three years, we were able to produce a very low-resolution 'map' of this giant, gaseous planet"
"We call it 'slow light'." Instead of hurtling through the vacuum at 300 million metres per second, the light slows down in the cold cloud of atoms to around 100 or 1,000 metres per second."
"While science is not quite at the stage where it can erase memories of our ex-partners, the story did make me wonder how I would respond if faced with a pill or a procedure that could make the memory of the bad thing that happened go away for ever. "