“I’ve been working with ants for eight years, and have never seen a traffic jam — and I’ve tried.”

Audrey Dussutour, of the University of Sydney, discusses how ants smooth movement could help gridlocked roads (Wired).

“What we are seeing is not necessarily optimism, but a pullback in the pessimism.”

David Kelly, chief market strategist at JPMorgan Funds, looks at a big pharma-led rise in the stock market (Bloomberg).

“We want to make sure we got this right. This has important consequences for us.”

Shuttle program manager John Shannon discusses why NASA has delayed the next shuttle flight (Reuters).