Further breaking the data down, 6.98 million held masters and another 1.18 million had PhDs or professional degrees.

FORBES: Educated and Underemployed

Pale and baggy-eyed after weeks of worry, they presented their data one by one, nearly breaking down with joy and relief.

NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers

In this study, the researchers tallied a massive amount of NIH and CDC data from 1928 to 2007, breaking it down by age group and coordinating it with periods of economic boom and bust.

FORBES: Suicide and Financial Crisis: How Real Is the Risk?

Using Internet 2, an advanced version of today's network operating at up to 2.4 gigabits per second, the researchers will share early data as it is being developed, breaking down walls between otherwise competing labs.

FORBES: Outsmarting AIDS

Breaking down the vastness of the content on the internet, these engines analyze massive amounts of data and determine the relevant and real-time correlations between content and users based on the articles that have been read, videos that have been watched, the time of day, advanced profiling techniques and more.

FORBES: Search, Social, And Recommendation-Engines