Slide images: Photo of children playing "Simon Says" with Jaemi, a humanoid robot (top left); artist's conception of a super-Earth discovered orbiting GJ1214, a dim red dwarf star (top center); biomedical image showing the cells inside a mouse kidney obtained using 15 femtosecond laser pulses (top right); photo from the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program showing a technologist verifying the quality of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) products with microscopic inspections (bottom left); photo of an iceberg near Antarctica (bottom right)

Image credits: Lisa-Joy Zgorski, National Science Foundation (top left); David Aguilar, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA (top center); Marcos Dantus, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University (photo by Kurt Stepnitz, Michigan State University) (top right); photo from ATE Centers Impact 2008-2010 (www.atecenters.org) (bottom left); Jeffrey Kietzmann, National Science Foundation (bottom right)