In the Media

"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."

"The main advantage of these sensors is their common use in mobile phones"

“One wonderful thing about not having expectations for yourself . . . is that everything that happens is just such a surprise.”

“What we tried to do is sort of stand back and say what’s changed”

"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. "

What do a 60-year-old video artist, a 36-year-old atomic physicist, and a 53-year-old behavioral economist have in common?

"The goal of the U.S. Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) program is to advance the careers and leadership of professional women in the field of clean energy."

Companies are grappling with increasingly far flung networks of suppliers and manufacturers. At the same time, many companies have reduced the number of backup suppliers, in order to cut costs.

"If a company has invested over $200 million in a satellite, they need to be able to assure that it works for that period of time. We really need to improve our method of quantifying and understanding the space environment, so we can better improve design."

“We’re seeing graphene getting to a point where it can compete with today’s technologies”

“Ever since the sequencing of the human genome, there has been a sense that the science hasn’t panned out quite as quickly as people had hoped”

“They haven’t been explored yet because we haven’t had good data on the way places look.”

"Teaching entrepreneurship is difficult because the subject itself is idiosyncratic, contextual and experiential."

"With this antenna you could transmit from the Moon, and even farther than that."