Some insights from this year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
"We are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything we've considered seriously in climate model simulations."
Chris Field, co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's second working group
"[Cloning a Neanderthal] starting from the DNA extracted from a fossil is and will remain impossible as far as I can see into the future."
Svante Pääbo, sequencer of the Neanderthal genome
"If life did happen many times, there could be something like a shadow biosphere that either was, or is, all around us."
Paul Davies, Beyond Center, Arizona State University
"[President Obama] sees the value of science not just as a way of keeping those strange members of our society employed who want to go off and do quirky things. … He is really valuing the product."
James McCarthy, AAAS president
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Soundbites from Chicago. Nature 457, 949 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/457949f
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