What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.

I thoroughly enjoyed my 11 years playing for the Winnipeg football club.

So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?

What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.

What lots of people have been trying to do ever since is find what's beyond the current Standard Model. So far, it has stood impervious to all attacks.

During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.