“All Indians felt proud that an Indian-origin scientist, who earned his early spurs in India, was a recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.”

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh praises Venkatraman Ramakrishnan for his chemistry Nobel as he inaugurates the 97th Indian Science Congress (Thaindian).

“We weren’t sure how high we could go. It was kind of an exploration… a learning experience.”

Bill Baker, of engineers Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was one of those behind the construction of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Dubai, which officially opens today (BBC).

“It’s a world of signalling between cells that we were blind to before.”

David Kleinfeld, of the University of California – San Diego, comments on a paper in Nature Neuroscience detailing the development of cells that change colour when exposed to specific drugs (BBC).