Scott Bessent is founder of the Key Square Group investment firm, seen here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, on Tue., July 16, 2024. He is photographed here in an upstairs room in Bloomberg's HQ at the 2024 Republican National Convention in the Deer Camp MKE restaurant near the Fiserv Forum. Bessent previously was Chief Investment Officer of Soros Fund Management. Bessent is a financial adviser for former president Donald Trump.

Portraits
Yukiko Yamashita is a Professor in MIT's Department of Biology and a Member of the Whitehead Institute, seen here holding a flask of fruit flies in her lab at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wed., March 2, 2022. Yamashita's research focuses on developmental genetics in Drosophila fruit flies, looking at the process of speciation, studying stem cells and junk DNA, and as a general model of tissue homeostasis.

Science
Mechanical Engineering junior Wei Xun He works on a prototype for a wearable device that captures a person's motion during a desk critique session in the first design studio class in the new D-Minor design minor at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Thurs., Nov. 3, 2016.

Education
UN forces from Brazil provide security and stability in the dangerous Bel Air neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 28 December 2005. The February 2006 elections in Haiti were the first since rebels took over the country in 2004. Tensions ran high and the international community wondered whether adequate security could be provided for the election. There were frequent kidnappings and killings, and voting was postponed 6 times, but eventually a new president and legislature were elected peacefully.

Photojournalism
Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign event at the Littleton Opera House in Littleton, New Hampshire.

Politics
Farnaz Niroui looks at an array of gold nanoparticles suspended in water in her lab in a cleanroom in the MIT.nano building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Mon., Sept. 19, 2022. Niroui is an Assistant Professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and her research, according to her group website, "pushes the limits of nanoscale engineering." Niroui and graduate student Spencer Zhu have developed a new method of nanoparticle "printing" which allows them to collect and arrange single nanoparticles using a liquid interface. The nanoparticles in these vials are largest in the leftmost vial, which gives a golden color to the water. The particles get progressively smaller and have different shapes proceeding down the vials to the right, which gives different color appearances to the liquid. Each vial contains on the order of hundreds of millions of gold nanoparticles.

Business & Industry

Portraiture

Reuben Greenaway is a machine operator custodian in MIT's Department of Facilities in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Science

Yukiko Yamashita is a Professor in MIT's Department of Biology and a Member of the Whitehead Institute, seen here holding a flask of fruit flies in her lab at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wed., March 2, 2022. Yamashita's research focuses on developmental genetics in Drosophila fruit flies, looking at the process of speciation, studying stem cells and junk DNA, and as a general model of tissue homeostasis.

Education

Mechanical Engineering junior Wei Xun He works on a prototype for a wearable device that captures a person's motion during a desk critique session in the first design studio class in the new D-Minor design minor at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Thurs., Nov. 3, 2016.

Photojournalism

UN forces from Brazil provide security and stability in the dangerous Bel Air neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 28 December 2005. The February 2006 elections in Haiti were the first since rebels took over the country in 2004. Tensions ran high and the international community wondered whether adequate security could be provided for the election. There were frequent kidnappings and killings, and voting was postponed 6 times, but eventually a new president and legislature were elected peacefully.

Politics

Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign event at the Littleton Opera House in Littleton, New Hampshire.

Business & Industry

Farnaz Niroui looks at an array of gold nanoparticles suspended in water in her lab in a cleanroom in the MIT.nano building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Mon., Sept. 19, 2022. Niroui is an Assistant Professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and her research, according to her group website, "pushes the limits of nanoscale engineering." Niroui and graduate student Spencer Zhu have developed a new method of nanoparticle "printing" which allows them to collect and arrange single nanoparticles using a liquid interface. The nanoparticles in these vials are largest in the leftmost vial, which gives a golden color to the water. The particles get progressively smaller and have different shapes proceeding down the vials to the right, which gives different color appearances to the liquid. Each vial contains on the order of hundreds of millions of gold nanoparticles.

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A crow sits in a blooming cherry blossom tree in The Quad on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA, on Sun., March 17, 2024.
Mount Rainier visible from the Kingston Ferry.

Selected highlights and recent work

The new MK30 Prime Air drone at the BFI1 Amazon Fulfillment Center in Sumner, Washington, USA, on Wed., Oct. 11, 2023.

Amazon’s new delivery drone

Cathy O'Neil is a data scientist and best-selling author, most recently of the book "The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation," seen here at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Mon., April 4, 2022. O'Neil also wrote "Weapons of Math Destruction," for which she received the Euler Book Prize. "The Shame Machine" looks at what she calls "the shame industrial complex," especially in the realm of social media and partisan politics. O'Neil is also CEO of ORCAA (O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing) a consulting group focused on examining bias in algorithms. ORCAA audits algorithms for racist, sexist, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory results in fields including hiring, insurance, and banking.

Author and data scientist Cathy O’Neill for The Observer, and other recent portraiture on assignment

Gund Kwok, all-women lion dance troupe

UNION GAP, WASHINGTON - AUGUST 18: Asparagus and pepperjack cheese tamales are a seasonal specialty of Los Hernández Tamales in Union Gap, WA, on Fri., Aug. 18, 2023. In 2018, Los Hernández Tamales was given a James Beard America's Classics award. (M. Scott Brauer / Los Angeles Times)

Food in Washington’s Yakima Valley, for the LA Times

George Church is a geneticist, molecular engineer, and chemist, at Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, seen here in his lab and office at the New Research Building in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Tues., Sept. 5, 2017.

Portraits of professors and scientists

A man rides a water slide at the water park at Meixin Foreigner Street in Chongqing, China.

Chongqing – Where the Rivers Meet

Xenobots, micro-scale "living robots" made from embryonic frog stem cells, float in a petri dish in a lab at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, on Thu., Sept. 9, 2021. The robots were created by Douglas Blackiston, a Senior Scientist at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, and Sam Kriegman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Weiss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University. Kriegman designed the artificial intelligence system that created the structure for the xenobots and Blackiston is responsible for building them. As Blackiston put it, "Sam tests [the robots and other experimental setups] in the virtual world, and then I test it in the real world." The machines are capable of autonomously performing simple tasks including navigating mazes and gathering small particles together.

Xenobots, for Bloomberg Businessweek

Folk dancers gather in Sofia, Bulgaria, for the International Day of Dance

Postdoctoral Associate Jasdave Chahal (left) and Research Scientist Omar F. Khan are seen here in the Langer Lab at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Tues., Nov. 15, 2016. The two worked together to create a programmable RNA vaccine.

Portraits of professors and scientists

A fancy limousine for hire with gold rims and a large hood ornament stands in a parking lot near Soviet-era khrushchyovka apartment blocs in Narva, Estonia, on Tue., May 10, 2022. Narva is Europe's easternmost and most Russian city (approximately 95% of the population is Russian) and sits on the border with Russia in northeastern Estonia. The city was practically leveled during World War 2 and was rebuilt with Soviet-style apartment buildings.

Narva – Between Europe and Russia

Uber and Lyft drivers rally to unionize in front of a local Uber Greenlight office in Saugus, Massachusetts, US, on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Uber and Lyft drivers gathered to demand the ride-hailing platform reinstate workers "unfairly deactivated" and voice support for legislation that would give drivers for the companies the ability to unionize, access to a base pay rate and protections such as unemployment insurance. Photographer: M. Scott Brauer/Bloomberg

Uber/Lyft driver labor rally for Bloomberg News

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A crow sits in a blooming cherry blossom tree in The Quad on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA, on Sun., March 17, 2024.
Mount Rainier visible from the Kingston Ferry.