EditorialA carved skull sits on a bookshelf on the top level of the two-level study at Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s home in Atlanta on Jan. 14, 2023. (Dustin Chambers/The New York Times)
EditorialThe skull of a Russian soldier, thought to have been killed in September, near Koroviy Yar, Ukraine on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times)
EditorialA biomedical engineer working with Austin Beggin, who is paralyzed from the shoulders down, connects an implant attached to the cortex of his brain and skull to equipment for tests on whether he can control movement with his thoughts, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Nov. 29, 2022. (Daniel Lozada/The New York Times)
EditorialA skull cap belonging to Java Man, the first known specimen of Homo erectus, on display at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, Nov. 3, 2022. (Ilvy Njiokiktjien/The New York Times)
EditorialA plastic replica of a human skull is taped to the hood of a truck driven by Ukrainian military personnel in Druzhkivka, in eastern Ukraine, in eastern Ukraine, on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)
EditorialLaura Emmert, a lab and field technician at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum in Tennessee, brushes away dirt from a tapir skull, in Gray, Tenn. on Sept. 1, 2022. (Mike Belleme/The New York Times)
EditorialA plastic replica of a human skull is taped to the hood of a truck driven by Ukrainian military personnel in Druzhkivka, in eastern Ukraine, in eastern Ukraine, on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)
EditorialA photo of a sonogram of Madison Underwood’s baby shows the lack of skull development, in Atlanta, July 9, 2022. (Kendrick Brinson/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Raquel Fortun, a forensic pathologist, photographs a hole that she says is consistent with a gunshot wound in the back of a skull of a man killed during President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war in Manila, May 17, 2022. (Ezra Acayan/The New York Times)
EditorialPart of a skull, believed to be about 8,000 years old, found in the Minnesota River in September 2021. (Renville County Sheriff's Office via The New York Times)
EditorialPart of a skull, believed to be about 8,000 years old, found in the Minnesota River in September 2021. (Renville County Sheriff's Office via The New York Times)