But not every kid wants to be a doctor or lawyer or physicist, and college is not for everyone.

FORBES: Truth in Packaging

He likes to say that the only time a physicist and a brain surgeon meet is when the physicist is about to be cut open and to his mind that made no sense.

NEWYORKER: In the Air

And quantum computing is so new that scientists can only begin to imagine what it might one day be able to do, says John Preskill, a physicist at Caltech.

FORBES: Atoms Offer Giant Leap In Computing Power

In order to convince other nations not to go nuclear, this trend has to be reversed, argues Sidney Drell, a nuclear physicist who has been at the center of US nuclear policy for many years, now at Stanford University.

NPR: Nuclear Weapons Gain Importance for Regional Powers

Mark Buchanan is a theoretical physicist who writes about how physics can be used to understand biology, economics, psychology and other social sciences.

FORBES: The Science Of Subtle Signals

"The scientists are right to be extremely cautious about interpreting these findings, " said Jim Al-Khalili, a physicist from the University of Surrey, who suggested that a simple error in the measurement is probably the source of all the fuss.

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