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Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Students with the High Line Paulista workshop carry a bamboo dome past Oscar Niemeyer's Edifício Copan in downtown São Paulo.
Students with the High Line Paulista workshop carry a bamboo dome past Oscar Niemeyer's Edifício Copan in downtown São Paulo. Gabriela Portilho for The New York Times
By SIOBHAN ROBERTS AND GABRIELA PORTILHO
Weaver and artist Alison Grace Martin employs non-Euclidean geometry in her small bamboo creations. Now she's scaling up.
Neil Armstrong died in August 2012 of complications from coronary bypass surgery. His family received a $6 million wrongful death settlement from a Cincinnati hospital.
Philip Scott Andrews/The New York Times
By GINA KOLATA
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have coronary bypass surgery each year, and few die. Here's what experts say happened to a national hero.
• Neil Armstrong's Death, and a Stormy, Secret $6 Million Settlement
• 'Would Dad Approve?' Neil Armstrong's Heirs Divide Over a Lucrative Legacy
A Cuban flag is raised in front of the U.S. embassy in Havana. The mysterious symptoms that struck U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China have baffled scientists since they were first reported in 2016.
Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
By BENEDICT CAREY
"Something happened to the brain" of diplomats who reported odd ailments, a brain-imaging study suggests. But the cause is still unclear.
An artist's impression of how Mars may have looked about four billion years ago, with an ocean in its northern hemisphere.
ESO/M. Kornmesser
By ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS
The 75-mile wide crater could be something like a Chicxulub crater for the red planet.
Toby Walsh is an expert in artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
Dean Sewell for The New York Times
A CONVERSATION WITH...
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
Autonomous weapons, capable of acting without human oversight, are closer than we think, Dr. Walsh believes, and must be banned.
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A fanfin seadevil, a type of deep sea anglerfish found in the Atlantic Ocean. There are 168 species of deep sea anglerfish.
David Shale/Minden Pictures
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Increasingly, these ghoulish and improbable denizens of the abyss are being captured on video, revealing an array of surprising behaviors.
Harrison Duran, a biology student at the University of California, Merced, was part of a fossil hunt last month that yielded a five-foot triceratops skull.
Fossil Excavators
By EMILY S. RUEB
Passed over for an air-conditioned summer internship, Harrison Duran instead braved rattlesnakes in a remote area of North Dakota to help make a thrilling discovery.
A mangabey in Tai National Park in Ivory Coast.
Jan Gogarten
By VERONIQUE GREENWOOD
A downside of social living among monkeys and chimpanzees, a new study suggests, is being at greater risk of deadly disease.
Scientists have found a way to identify virtually any American from any data set with just 15 attributes, like gender, ZIP code or marital status.
Sean Gallup/Getty Images
By GINA KOLATA
Computer scientists have developed an algorithm that can pick out almost any American in databases supposedly stripped of personal information.
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite before its launch in April 2018. It recently spotted three exoplanets 73 light-years away in the constellation Pictor.
NASA, via Reuters
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Halfway through its first tour of the local universe, the spacecraft has found a "Super Earth" and two "sub-Neptunes."
The Lightsail 2 was deployed in Earth orbit on Tuesday.
The Planetary Society
By SHANNON STIRONE
The Planetary Society deployed LightSail 2, aiming to further demonstrate the potential of the technology for space propulsion.
 
Climate Change
The Amazon rain forest in Para State, Brazil. Deforestation is increasing in the country, but the current government has reduced enforcement of protective laws.
Mauro Pimentel/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By LETÍCIA CASADO AND ERNESTO LONDOÑO
Cutting down trees at the current rate could lead to runaway deforestation, environmentalists say. But President Bolsonaro is sticking to his promise to curb enforcement.
The body of a victim in Paris of the 2003 heat wave, which pushed France to develop a nationwide plan to deal with heat waves.
Jean-Francois Deroubaix/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images
By ELIAN PELTIER
Heat records were smashed across much of Europe this week, leaving officials searching for short- and longer-term solutions to help people endure temperatures soaring over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Gracia Lam
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By JANE E. BRODY
Repair may be especially helpful for children, who are more likely than older patients to reinjure a reconstructed A.C.L., a pioneer of the surgery says.
Hendrixx Love, 1, reacted as he got sprayed with sunscreen by his mother, Ashley Love, 23, at Coney Island Beach.
Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
By KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS
Does it make sense for me, a dark-skinned black woman, to wear sunscreen? The answer is more complicated than it may seem.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden with, from left, Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Kamala Harris. The Democratic presidential candidates offer widely differing proposals for expanding access to health care.
Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By REED ABELSON
Some Democrats are proposing a government alternative to private insurance. But allowing people to choose such a plan may destabilize the A.C.A., some experts say.
Workers carried a 16-month-old child who died of Ebola to burial in the Beni area of Congo earlier this month. 
Jerome Delay/Associated Press
By DONALD G. MCNEIL JR.
After the resignation of the country's health minister, the president will take over the response to the epidemic and distribute a new vaccine.
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By PERRI KLASS, M.D.
The biggest problem is that there is no way to test, unequivocally, for the presence of the bacteria that cause the disease.
A textured breast implant. Those made by Allergan have been linked to a higher risk of cancer.
imageBROKER, via Alamy
By DENISE GRADY
Under pressure from the Food and Drug Administration, Allergan will stop selling textured implants. Thirty-three deaths have been tied to the devices.
Getty Images
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
In animals, weight training appeared to promote the creation of new neurons in the memory centers of the brain.
James Steinberg
By GINA KOLATA
A new software algorithm decides which patients are most likely to become infected with the virus. But this is not like other risk calculators, some experts say.
 
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