“I don’t watch much television but I know Crime Scene Investigation and this was just such an investigation – but in space!”

Frank Helmich, of the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, was one of the team that has fixed the HiFi spectrometer instrument on the Herschel Space Telescope (BBC).

“According to our models, drug resistance in San Francisco will increase by around 30% in the next three to five years. That will present its own challenges to that city, but the most significant implications of our work are for countries where treatment is just being rolled out. San Francisco is always the canary in the mine.”

Sally Blower, of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, warns of the dangers of drug resistant HIV (Time).

“We do not allow people who work on the orbiter to use illegal substances, and we’re going to take care of this.”

Robert Cabana, director of the Kennedy Space Center, comments after cocaine is found inside a restricted shuttle hangar (Florida Today).