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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.

We are finding that we are beginning to constrain some of our understandings and exclude some possibilities.

"I like the fact that I'm steering my own ship in terms of research. I feel like an entrepreneur." --Lance Silverman

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

"In the current environment, any increase is welcome." --Dave Moore, AAMC

"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.

Science magazine's special section on sustainability and energy is also found online.

“She is one of those few who have a strong technical background alongside strategic environmental management experience in a large international company,” says Noam Gressel, CEO of Assif Strategies

I'm probably going to evolve as I move along the path of that photon.

"We really value equally the technical ability of the candidate and their interpersonal leadership skills." - Vlatko Vlatkovic

"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.

"For miles and miles, everything looks, feels, and smells pure and uncontaminated," says Sasha Tozzi, a Ph.D. student working in Antarctica's Ross Sea.

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 feel confident that my ideas are good enough to go up against the rest of the world, but the question is, can I generate enough preliminary data fast enough?
- Emmanuel Chang"

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

“Reduced economic opportunities in some fields relative to others … may be an important factor driving native students to enter particular occupations and avoid others.” --George Borjas