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This week our coverage on Inside Science includes stories about a biological marker that may signal the likelihood of developing lingering COVID-19 symptoms, how volcanic eruptions might have disrupted farming in ancient Egypt, and how climate change may affect where coffee, avocados and cashews can grow. We also published two videos. One explains why the moon is sometimes visible during the day. The other is a video interview with Philip Skiba, a sports medicine and endurance performance expert. Phil shared how he went from wanting to be an astronaut to working in sports medicine, including his experience working on Nike's Breaking2 project that helped Eliud Kipchoge run a marathon in less than 2 hours. This and future interviews in the series will showcase the human side of science. They're about what makes scientists and researchers tick. We'll cover a wide variety of subjects, from quantum physics to the hidden history of science. In episode two, to be released soon, Phil will discuss his experiences working on the COVID frontlines early in the pandemic and with athletes who have long COVID. |
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In this episode of Inside Science Conversations, Phil Skiba discusses how he went from wanting to be an astronaut to working in sports medicine. |
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By Meeri Kim, Washington Post |
This is an extraordinary story about a young man who experienced a very large stroke as a baby, but nobody found out until he was a teenager. As the headline describes, today he's an athletic college graduate. That's not what doctors would have thought looking at any of the many MRIs that he's had over the years. |
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By Carolyn Gramling, Science News |
When I was studying geology in college, the other majors and I went absolutely bonkers for our class about petrology, which is about understanding rocks and minerals. We spent hours listening to, ahem, classic rock, and looking at tiny crystals under microscopes. The man who taught that class spent Northern Hemisphere winters in Antarctica searching for meteorites. It's a good place to look because dark bits of rocky debris stand out against ice. This story describes how machine learning can help make the search even more productive. |
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By Ryan Dahn, Physics Today |
It is rare that our American Institute of Physics colleagues at Physics Today interview a fiction author. However, this is a fun conversation between editor Ryan Dahn and Benjamín Labatut, who wrote the novel "When We Cease to Understand the World." They touch on the contradictions inherent in trying to understand what Labatut calls "aspects of our experience that we can't understand." It's well worth a read for fans of physics and storytelling. |
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