EditorialHenry Segerman, a British American mathematician and inventor at Oklahoma State University, at his home studio in Stillwater, Okla., Dec. 3, 2022. (Brett Deering/The New York Times)
EditorialBeijing’s National Aquatics Center was known as the Water Cube when it hosted swimming in the 2008 Summer Olympics; now it’s known as the Ice Cube. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)
EditorialIce Cube, left, and E-40 — who have formed the supergroup Mount Westmore with Snoop Dog and Too Short — in Atlanta, April 16, 2021. (Wulf Bradley/The New York Times)
EditorialPacific Northwest National Laboratory’s uranium cube, which is enclosed in a protective case. (Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory via The New York Times)