Astronomers spot an asteroid being struck by another object.
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![Logo of She Roars podcast series](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2019-01/she_roars1.png?h=3a843231&itok=_zMixjmp)
Deputy Director for Science and Technology Pat Falcone discusses her career, and women in science and technology in this Princeton University podcast.
![Nuclear chemist Dawn Shaughnessy](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2018-12/Screen%20Shot%202018-12-04%20at%209.47.12%20AM.png?h=e526cd78&itok=jTpyHUDE)
Dawn Shaughnessy's team is partially responsible for adding six new elements to the periodic table’s ranks.
![Image of Jupiter with water droplet](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2018-08/Hydrogen%20NYT.png?h=3a843231&itok=jv0e5dTY)
With gentle pulses from gigantic lasers, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory transformed hydrogen into droplets of shiny liquid metal using the world’s largest and most energetic laser.
![Trees in summer and winter](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2018-08/Nature%20severeseasons875x500px.png?h=bad00e01&itok=i3PHeNfN)
Nearly four decades of global temperature data collected by satellites reveal the atmospheric fingerprint of climate change.
![Satellite image of desert landscape](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2018-08/NYT%20rock_0.png?h=ab5b9f75&itok=ZFrDfzK2)
The rocks in Oman remove planet-warming carbon dioxide from the air and turn it to stone. In theory, these rocks could store hundreds of years of human emissions of CO2.
![Boulby Mine, home to the Watchman experiment](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2018-04/NY_times.png?h=1a6b1f5f&itok=IEfEvRqB)
What are nations like North Korea and Iran really doing at nuclear reactors that are out of sight?
Someday, wispy subatomic particles known as antineutrinos could provide a clear view of what countries with illicit nuclear weapons programs are trying to hide.
![Ivana Cvijanovic with mountain backdrop](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2018-08/MIT%20Tech%20Rev%20dscf3112.png?h=ec30977a&itok=dCEpUs29)
Lawrence Livermore’s increasingly powerful climate models have sounded a stark warning for California.
![Laser-driven shock compression experiment](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2018-08/NYT%20np875x500.png?h=26ad34ae&itok=pjbkvg2y)
Long theorized to be found in the mantles of Uranus and Neptune, the confirmation of the existence of superionic ice could lead to the development of new materials.