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Ones that got away

“They take a few liberties, but we can forgive them for that.”

James Gillies, a CERN spokesman, comments on forthcoming film ‘Angels & Demons’, which features the particle physics facility (Independent).

“The rapid appearance and sheer scale made us suspect it had accumulated offshore and been transported in.”

Dongyan Liu, a marine biologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Yantai, Shandong, knows where the giant algae bloom that nearly ruined the Olympic sailing in China came from (BBC).

“We have had to throw away almost all of the extant technologies that we’ve been using for decades.”

Chris German, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, explains the difficulties faced in constructing Nereus, the first autonomous vehicle to visit the Challenger Deep (BBC).

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