EditorialThe Grande Costa d'Avorio, a cargo ship that caught fire two days prior, continuing to burn at Port Newark in Newark, N.J. on July 7, 2023. (Dakota Santiago/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Roisin Commane, an atmospheric chemist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, analyzes the grass at the CUNY Harlem campus in New York, on Jan. 9, 2023. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialNabarun Dasgupta, who leads the drug checking program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, examines samples alongside Erin Tracy, a chemist, in Chapel Hill, N.C., Oct. 4, 2022. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialStephan Knauer, a chemist at Sanity Group on Dec. 21, 2021, a marijuana start-up that has built a testing and processing facility near Frankfurt, Germany in anticipation of legalization. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)