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Meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streak across the sky above the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO). Graphic illustration of molecules floating with cinema tape against a dark background. 2 rows of 3 scanning tunnel microscope images showing purple shapes against a dark background. Young plants lined up in a row in a petri dish, ranging from green to red hues. Container ship under Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Illustration of a global network connected by various scientific equipment and data servers, with lines linking icons representing a telescope, servers, a computer chip, and other technology around a globe. A rendering in paraview of the product of the 3D reconstruction. (Credit: David Raftrey) Researcher working at a laptop. An illustration of a microchip is composited in the background. An illustration of factory smoke stacks emitting clouds of pollution, with three large yellow arrows pointing downward against a blue grid background. Portrait of Bert de Jong, a person with short gray hair wearing a black jacket with arms crossed over chest, smiling. Gray particles of various sizes against a dark background, imaged here by a scanning electron microscope. Portrait of Peter Fischer, a person with short brown gray hair wearing glasses and a dark top, photographed against a gray backdrop.