Contributor scientific AmericanApril 2025 issue
Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share stories behind stories
Triston spinsky
A complex diagnosis
The medium of photography is defined by its boundaries: shutter speed, available light, background. Photographer Triston Spinski says, “This is just this minor snapshot”AboveHe sees his art as “an exercise in subtraction” and strategic ambiguity, and he allows “the place for the story and fill those intervals.” This feature article by writer Paul Marino gives a description of the writer’s discovery to understand the cause of a lifetime secret, once the speed of his hands called “motorings”. Spinski traveled from her home to Marino from her home in the coastal main, where she still used long exposure to catch the essence of Marino motoring in images.
In the last 20 years, Spinski has learned that he is the most emotional about depicting things “on the edges of praise”, which we see but pay little attention. For a project recently, he spent three years, which take pictures of the vernal pool, the seasonal body of water, which vary in size from a puddle to a pond. These network of almanac pools are like the “nerve hub” of a forest, where “blooms like life,” they say. “For me, now, pokhar in the forest is necessary” – a discovery that also teaches them about the attractive stories that one can find in their backyard.
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Catherine Zureck
Hidden world
Catherine Zureck became a theoretical physicist because she wanted to understand how mathematically, how the universe works. “It appeals to me that it was difficult,” she says. Zurek eventually decided to study one of the most difficult open questions in the region: What is made of dark matter? In our cover story, she explains the “Hidden Valley” theory of dark matter, which she helped lead, which suggests that there is a whole world of dark particles, invisible to the eye.
Zurek always discovers simple, physical analogs when trying to exclude a problem. “I think in very physical words,” she says, an approach to the theoretical physicist Richard Fenman. “He can explain anything in the context of an electronic circuit,” says Zuray. His principle of hidden valleys has been impressive in the area of dark matter, and now bringing his physical approach to another big open question in physics: how does gravity fit in quantum mechanics? “I am an outsider in that community,” she says, but if she has brought the set of ideas to the field, it is felt in nature, “It’s fine because I have come into a new field in a different way of thinking about those problems.”
Diana Quone
A new look on schizophrenia
Chasing a master’s degree in neurology, Diana Quone began reporting stories of science and technology for her school student newspapers. He enjoyed it so much that he decided to make it his career. “I love science journalism,” she says. When quiet discoveries are done, “We get to see an exciting part of that whole (scientific) process.” Now, as a Berlin -based journalist, Quon focuses on neurology. In her article for this issue, she examines a new understanding of schizophrenia’s complications. Recent findings have complicated what she says to the “big story” of the causes of schizophrenia – and has pointed to the role of the immune system in one of the cases.
Schizophrenia is one of many conditions that can arise from both mind and body, quone. She is often prepared for these border-educated health stories and has covered brain-body connections in functional neurological disorders, heart conditions, and even cancer. When treatment and diagnosis become silent in a medical field, patients may lose. “Fast,” says Quon, “there is a feeling between the two physicians and researchers, that we have these differences between subjects and need to break down to serve people better in all different communities.”
Mark witton
Gladiators of Mesozoic
Mark Wetton Drawing tricharatops And Stegosaurus Since he was a child. Now this is basically his full -time job. As a fossilist, he has found himself immersed in the field of peliortistry, where he uses scientific research to make educated educated estimates like these long -lost creatures. A lot has changed in those estimates in decades, and dinosaur reconstructions look very different today when they were small. Michael B. For the feature of this issue on the dinosaurs on the armored dinosaur by Habib, Wetton was tasked to create side-by-side comparison for old vs. new looks. Stegosaurus And Triceratops, “New baby on block”, with armored dinosaurs Boralopelta,
There is no prescribed academic route for someone who wants to become a peliortist – Veton has to learn while learning. His Ph.D. Thesis, he studied the anatomy of the avian pterosaus, which are “some of the most ridiculous looking animals that you can imagine,” they say. He can now stare a fossil skeleton for hours and map the groups of muscles in his brain. , Still “as dinosaurs were still animals living on the same planet that we do,” says Wetton. “We should be careful not to make them like aliens.
