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" In addition to a well-funded school system, we need to encourage and exploit innovative approaches for learning outside the classroom. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
Learning
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Need
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" We knew from theoretical models that mergers of massive, gas-rich galaxies were more frequent in the past. Now we've found that these mergers are responsible for producing both the nearby obscured quasar population and their distant cousins. "
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" Perhaps more than English or history, STEM subjects require an enormous amount of foundational learning before students can become competent. "
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" If you know the shape of the lens and the image you get, you can work out the path that light followed between the object and your eye. "
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" As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim. "
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" My own day-to-day observations confirm that many Americans can barely make change. At the supermarket where I buy groceries, I've watched more than one encounter at the cash register where both customer and clerk are befuddled at the prospect of double-checking the sums. "
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" The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the third. "
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" Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of better instruments, more data and better data hone our understanding further. Social, cultural, economic, and political context are relevant to our understanding of how science works. "
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Nature
" In an era of ever-increasing globalization, what it takes to become and remain a science superpower has fundamentally changed. "
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Science
Changed
" Research in any domain of science today requires specialized training to build up knowledge and clinical competence. To make major breakthroughs, we need people with expertise who are engaged in sustained research over a long period of time - in a word, scientists. "
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" We cannot explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing without general relativity, and this is where MOND spectacularly fails. "
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Where
Without
" The early universe was a dusty place, and the UV radiation from the hot, young black holes and stars would get enshrouded by dust, re-radiated, and scattered into red wavelengths like infra-red, causing these objects to remain obscured. "
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Hot
Place
" All the particles that we are made of only account for about four per cent of the cosmic inventory. "
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" No one wants to walk across a crowd-sourced bridge. "
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Bridge
Walk
" Black holes are enigmatic astronomical objects, areas where the gravity is so immense that it has warped spacetime so that not even light can escape. "
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Gravity
" Dark matter is one of the dominant constituents of the universe, which piled up in certain parts of the universe due to gravity, and in those regions, galaxies were formed. It is the unseen thing that holds the universe together. "
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Up
" Research in basic sciences now requires resources that no one country can provide. "
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Country
Basic
Resources
" I am obsessed with trying to understand why there is such rampant denialism of science in our country. I find this exuberant irrationalism extremely disturbing. And this is particularly troubling, because I am a professional scientist. "
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Why
Trying
" Dark matter is particularly intriguing because it's some kind of particle - that's for sure. "
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Kind
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" Mental discipline and tenacity in the face of obstacles are traits that have greatly helped me in both my personal and professional journey thus far. I am also very optimistic by nature and tend to focus on the positive and remain hopeful when faced with adversity. "
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Nature
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" Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it. "
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" Being nimble and ready to change our minds if need be is an attribute that is crucial to live and thrive in a society that is powered by science and technology, both as an individual and as an engaged citizen. "
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" Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing. "
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Always
" We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one. "
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Desire
Giving
" The precise effects of lensing depend on the mass of the lens, the structure of space-time, and the relative distance between us, the lens, and the distant object behind it. It's like a magnifying glass, where the image you get depends on the shape of the lens and how far you hold it from the object you're looking at. "
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Distance
" I am a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, where I teach an introductory class in cosmology. I see the deficiencies that first-year students show up with. "
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" I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe. "
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Numbers
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" Data suggest that central black holes might play an important role in adjusting how many stars form in the galaxies they inhabit. For one thing, the energy produced when matter falls into the black hole may heat up the surrounding gas at the center of the galaxy, thus preventing cooling and halting star formation. "
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" As an astrophysicist, my research work involves mapping dark matter, the elusive substance that accounts for about a quarter of our universe. "
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" Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation. "
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