We've focused on being able to detect low wavelength light so this machine is able to see things other telescopes can't.

The 'pearl in the oyster' is being able to run an application in a machine, but not alter the machine in any way.

I've always been fascinated with being able to detect a minuscule amount of a contaminant in a complex matrix, the proverbial needle in a haystack. With LC-MS/MS technology we can detect substances that were previously very difficult or impossible to analyze. It is comforting to be able to tell people with certainty that our food has very few residues and that the ones we find are at very low levels.

I don't detect among any of the parties a willingness to construct a light water reactor which will be a very expensive, very long-term type of project,

A lot of us have our own telescopes. One of the things we like to do is go out someplace dark and set up our telescopes and look at the sky. When we have a star party, you don't mind deserting your 'scope and going down the hill to see what someone else is looking at.

Men have become tools of their tools.