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In 2005, Dr. Jin became the second-youngest woman ever elected to the National Academy of Sciences. 

This summer’s weather was relentless and hellish, crowded with the type of record-smashing extremes that scientists have long warned about. 

The first NASA explorer of its kind took off on a seven-year quest Thursday, chasing after a big, black, unexplored asteroid to gather a few handfuls of gravel for return to Earth. 

The space agency plans to launch a spacecraft to an ateroid named Bennu, in a mission that will take seven years. 

Overall, landfalling Asian typhoon intensity has increased by about 12 percent in nearly four decades. 

The probe captured the best views of Jupiter yet, revealing turbulent storms in the north pole.