--- --- # How We Could Stop Any Asteroids Heading Our Way by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 9, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 9, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**We could probably stop an asteroid hurtling toward Earth — if we were looking for it.**](http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/insuring-the-world-against-killer-asteroids-costs-less-than-you-think/) By Eric Berger in Ars Technica **2\.** [**There’s a better way to interrogate crime suspects.**](http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/2/good-cop-bad-cop-routine-produces-false-positives.html) By Christopher Moraff in Al Jazeera America **3\.** [**Your connected car might be a huge security risk.**](http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-the-connected-car-is-one-of-this-generations-biggest-security-risks/) By Conner Forrest in ZDNet **4\.** [**To find an answer for Zika virus, scientists grew a placenta in a lab.**](http://www.futurity.org/placenta-model-zika-1116322-2/) By Anita Srikameswaran in Futurity **5\.** [**It’s time to be more thoughtful about expulsions.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/03/08/a-principal-met-a-student-she-expelled-and-it-changed-her-approach-to-discipline/) By Emma Brown in the Washington Post  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ How We Could Stop Any Asteroids Heading Our Way ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4252258/stop-asteroids-headed-our-way/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4252258/stop-asteroids-headed-our-way/"},"headline":"How We Could Stop Any Asteroids Heading Our Way","datePublished":"2016-03-09T17:01:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:17.823Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4252258/stop-asteroids-headed-our-way/","keywords":["Innovation","Education","police","asteroids","Discipline","Zika"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4252258/stop-asteroids-headed-our-way/","name":"How We Could Stop Any Asteroids Heading Our Way"}}]}] ```