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Today's detectors allow scientists to observe cosmic particles with energies surpassing those obtained in particle accelerators, making of the universe a new laboratory for particle physicists.

"I've never considered myself a great writer or a linguist," but, she says, she is able to identify problems with a manuscript.

"I felt that it was time to return, now that Portugal was changing and giving us much better conditions, [and] that we should contribute to the development of the country," says Bruno Silva-Santos.

"We are focusing on people who have established that they are already very good scientists and are about to start or at the beginning of an independent career." --Fotis Kafatos, European Research Council President.

The minister's aim is to create an employment structure in the universities with a much larger base of younger, early-career scientists.

Gonçalo Vieira set up a Portuguese IPY committee made up of 10 Portuguese biologists and geophysicists who together are leading Portugal's new polar research effort.

"I can see no reason to justify the exclusion of deaf people from scientific laboratories." --Sarah Page

India's top institutions make up a comprehensive and well-funded research network rivaling those in the West.

"Every week you are broadcasted, and every week you are praised or despised," says
REDES subdirector Sebastián Grinschpun.

For behavioral scientists considering a career in public polling research, it helps to have a fascination with numbers.

Franck Diafouka found at the EMEA the opportunity to study the impact of drugs in real life and work in a multinational and multicultural environment.

Diana Marques followed her passion for painting and biology separately until one day she saw an ad for a scientific illustration workshop.

Environmental forensics is an established discipline in North America, but in the United Kingdom and Europe, the field has emerged more slowly. It's gaining speed, however.

"Interactive museums have sprouted around Italy and across Europe as the European Commission and individual nations have placed science-and-society issues higher on the agenda."

Being lead programmer "can be a lonely role stuck between the code pool and the management and therefore requires a level of confidence in oneself," says Marchalot's boss, Brandon Smith.

"It's important to identify where you want to head because there are no career paths in nanotechnology." --Kshitij Aditeya Singh

Lenggenhager helped develop an experimental concept aimed at recreating out-of-body experiences in healthy subjects as a way to study distorted self-consciousness.

"The market [for science Ph.D.s] is enormous and the options are huge." --Paul Redmond, University of Liverpool

Part of the insecurity for both scientists comes from the fact that molecular gastronomy still has some way to go before it is fully accepted as a scientific field.