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  1. A Conversation With

A Mathematician Who Makes the Best of Things

Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of chatbots.
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Alessio Figalli, a mathematician at ETH Zurich and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., investigates “optimal transport,” the study of starting points, end points and the paths between.
CreditMichelle Gustafson for The New York Times 2. Trilobites

Hummingbirds Living in a Hive Found for the First Time

In a remote mountain cave in Ecuador, hummingbirds were discovered sleeping and nesting together.
By Rachel Nuwer
A male Chimborazo hillstar, a subspecies of high-altitude hummingbird native to the Andes of Ecuador and far southern Colombia.
CreditDusan Brinkhuizen 3. Trilobites

Lasers, Waffle Fries and the Secrets in Pterosaurs’ Tails

Scientists identified new structures in the tail vanes of the prehistoric flying reptiles.
By Elizabeth Landau

CreditNatalia Jagielska 4. Trilobites

This City’s Sewer System Is Full of Alligators, but It’s Not New York

Researchers found crocodilians, bats, raccoons and other creatures prowling a Florida town’s storm drains, “like something out of ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,’” one said.
By Jack Tamisiea
Who lives in a storm sewer under the street?
CreditAlan Ivory, via UF/IFAS

  1. A view into the launching vehicle of the Kilometer Cube Neutrino Telescope, two detectors in the Mediterranean Sea that consist of strings of light-catching orbs, spaced about a football field’s length apart and anchored to the seabed.
    CreditKM3NeT

  2. CreditRene Martin/American Museum of Natural History
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  3. Felisa Wolfe-Simon, a research scientist who presented findings in 2010 that suggested arsenic could be a building block of life.
    CreditMarissa Leshnov for The New York Times
  4. Blue Origin’s rocket factory near the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
    CreditSteve Nesius/Reuters
  5. The Earth’s inner core, a ball of iron and nickel about 1,500 miles wide, is deformed on its surface by the movements of the liquid outer core.
    CreditEdward Sotelo/USC Graphic

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Origins

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  1. A researcher samples a human ear bone for ancient DNA at Harvard Medical School.
    CreditHarvard Medical School
  2. Astromaterials processors at the Johnson Space Center in Houston collected asteroid particles from the base of the OSIRIS-REx science canister after its return from space in 2023.
    CreditNASA
  3. An artist’s interpretation of the LRJ people, who lived across northern Europe about 45,000 years ago. DNA reveals they were closely related to all living non-Africans.
    CreditTom Björklund
  4. Mammoth: It’s What Was for Dinner
    A study of a 12,800-year-old skull of a toddler offers a glimpse at how early Americans found food, and how their hunts may have led to a mass extinction.
    By Carl Zimmer
    An artist’s impression of early North Americans eating mammoths 12,000 years ago.
    CreditEric Carlson/Desert Archaeology, Inc.; Ben Potter/University of Alaska Fairbanks and Jim Chatters/McMaster University
  5. Dividing cells in a fertilized human egg. Researchers are engineering cells so that they can add distinctive bits of genetic material into their DNA so that as cells divide, each lineage builds up its own distinctive bar codes.
    CreditPetit Format/Science Source

Trilobites

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  1. A spider infected with the fungus Gibellula attenboroughii on the ceiling of a White Fathers’ cave in County Cavan, Ireland.
    CreditTim Fogg
  2. Two white campions, showing the “working” parts of the flowers: styles on female on the left, anthers with pollen on the male on the right.
    CreditLynda F. Delph

  3. CreditErnesto Di Maio
  4. Skeleton of the new plesiosaur at the Urwelt-Museum Hauff in Holzmaden, Germany.
    CreditKlaus Nilkens/Urwelt-Museum Hauff

  5. CreditMark Witton

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Climate and Environment

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  1. Destruction left behind by the Eaton fire in Altadena, Calif., last month.
    CreditPhilip Cheung for The New York Times
  2. The headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Silver Spring, Md. Staff members have been asked to identify grants connected to climate change, raising fears of cuts at the nation’s top climate science organization.
    CreditKristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa, via Associated Press
  3. Most of the 12 chapters in the report were written by teams of a dozen or so specialists.
    CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times

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  5. The remnants of a home in Altadena, Calif., last week.
    CreditPhilip Cheung for The New York Times