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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. "

Priyamvada Natarajan

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

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" The invisible and unseen has always fascinated us humans. "

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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. "

" 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 cannot decide on the efficacy of a medical treatment by counting the number of 'Likes' an intervention receives on Facebook; no matter what, professionals will still need to conduct continued clinical trials and evaluate their outcomes carefully. "

" 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. "

" Dark matter is particularly intriguing because it's some kind of particle - that's for sure. "

" 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. "

" Individuals reporting on their own experience with particular therapies would provide first-hand accounts that could be considered in the improvement of drug design. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

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Universe

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The pace and demands in any field, be it genetics, nanotechnology or cosmology, can only be met with increased international cooperation and collaborative projects. "

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

Priyamvada Natarajan

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I Am

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We cannot explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing without general relativity, and this is where MOND spectacularly fails. "

" 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. "

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