One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.

High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

Thank goodness I've saved my money.

My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.

Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.

It is quite moving to hold a piece of Mars in your hands and to reflect on its incredible interplanetary journey, and the science that gives confidence as to the origin of this unusual rock.

Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.