EditorialDavid Baker, the director of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington who has been working to build artisanal proteins for more than 30 years, in his lab at the university, in Seattle, Dec. 21, 2017. (Evan McGlinn/The New York Times)
EditorialChris Rycroft an applied mathematician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in Brookline, Mass., on July 20, 2022. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)
EditorialChris Rycroft an applied mathematician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in Brookline, Mass., on July 20, 2022. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)
EditorialThe biologists Toby Kiers, left, and Merlin Sheldrake take soil samples along the coast of Chaihuin, in Chile, on April 15, 2022. (Tomas Munita/The New York Times)
EditorialClaudia Traboni, left, and Patricia Baena, marine biologists who work on rehabilitating coral, in El Port de la Selva, Spain, on June 15, 2022. (Samuel Aranda/The New York Times)
EditorialThe commercial diver Gary Trumper dives for purple sea urchins off the coast of Albion, Calif., Aug. 24, 2021. (Dexter Hake/The New York Times)
EditorialBiologists Andrés Cuervo, Juliana Soto, Jessica Díaz and Andrea Morales Rozo check mist nets — loose, wispy netting that causes birds to become trapped in its pockets — near Florencia, Colombia, Aug. 8, 2021. (Federico Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialThe biologists Shahnie Rich, left, Faryn Case and Alex Gonyaw at the fish ponds where the Klamath tribes are raising C’waam and Koptu, also known as sucker fish, neaer Klamath Falls, Ore., on May 28, 2021. (Will Matsuda/The New York Times)
EditorialIn a photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, recently dead freshwater mussels from the Clinch River near Wallen Bend, Tenn., Oct. 17, 2019. (Meagan Racey/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via The New York Times)
EditorialBiologists Magalí Longo, left, and Sebastián Di Martino monitor one of the jaguars in a pre-release pen at Ibera National Park in Argentina on March 6, 2020. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)
EditorialDouglas Blackiston places frog embryos into a petri dish, where they begin the transformation into xenobots, at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., March 11, 2020. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)
EditorialThe discovery of two dead dolphins with grisly gunshot or stab wounds in Florida in recent weeks has prompted a plea for help by the federal authorities, who have offered a reward for information about whoever killed the animals. (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission via The New York Times)