EditorialAryeh Stollman, left, and Tobias Picker outside the conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden, where a key scene in their opera “Awakenings” is set, May 17, 2022. (Jeanette Spicer/The New York Times)
EditorialA participant wears a headband during a series of studies with a goal of helping people avoid motion sickness in self-driving cars, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Jan. 16, 2020. (Ryan Debolski/The New York Times)