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" 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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" In an era of ever-increasing globalization, what it takes to become and remain a science superpower has fundamentally changed. "

Priyamvada Natarajan

Become

Science

Changed

" I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe. "

" 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. "

" Evidence has been mounting for the key role that black holes play in the process of galaxy formation. But it now appears that they are likely the prima donnas of this space opera. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin. "

" In addition to a well-funded school system, we need to encourage and exploit innovative approaches for learning outside the classroom. "

" Finding the first seed black holes could help reveal how the relation between black holes and their host galaxies evolved over time. "

" 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. "

Priyamvada Natarajan

Together

Universe

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My students may have dexterity with the equations they're required to know, but they lack the capacity to apply their knowledge to real-life problems. This critical shortcoming appears in high school and possibly in elementary grades - long before college. "

" As an astrophysicist, my research work involves mapping dark matter, the elusive substance that accounts for about a quarter of our universe. "

" 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. "

" It is my idea that the public needs to be better educated about the nature of scientific inquiry and how the scientific process works. I firmly believe that this is the only effective way forward to combat the widespread distrust in facts and science. "

" Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing. "

" Research in basic sciences now requires resources that no one country can provide. "

" 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. "

" I am a phenomenologist - I work on developing theoretical models that are constrained by observations. "

Priyamvada Natarajan

Work

I Am

" The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the third. "

" Progress in science occurs in fits and starts, and paradigm shifts occur when evidence can be marshaled to support a new point of view. "

" 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. "

" As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim. "

" Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it. "

" We scientists have an obsession with unification, a grand synthesis. And dark matter is an irritating missing piece. "

" The deep fascination with the mysterious, and the impulse to seek and locate ourselves in the cosmic context, seems to be imprinted in our DNA and psyches. "

" No one wants to walk across a crowd-sourced bridge. "

" I fell in love with the night sky when I first looked through a telescope as a young girl growing up in Delhi. "

" Perhaps more than English or history, STEM subjects require an enormous amount of foundational learning before students can become competent. "