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) has been enamored by old-school natural history museum exhibits—the ones that use visual tricks to make sculptures and murals behind a glass panel feel like expansive, immersive worlds. “It’s a totally magical illusion,” she says. “It’s like the painting coming alive.” Today Zaiken designs similar murals for museum exhibits, often featuring dinosaurs, mammoths, or other prehistoric fauna. For this month’s cover story, written by evolutionary biologist Amy M.
For his feature story in this issue, Luhn traveled to California, Texas and Louisiana to visit the sites of current and future direct-air-capture plants. This technology promises to suck carbon dioxide from the air, leaving it ready to be sequestered in the ground, but it is costly. Its use is also loaded with important ethical questions, which makes the tech “extremely contentious,” Luhn says.
For every project, Hays learns about a new area of science and tries to wrangle that information into a visual representation that will “bring along to learn what I just learned.” In this month’s feature on new pain medications, written by science journalist Marla Broadfoot, Hays illustrated how ion channels allow nerves to fire—and how sodium channel blockers can target them to stop pain at its source.
When Hays worked for the National Cancer Institute in a cell biology lab from 2014 to 2018, scientists were still trying to understand the structure of these ion channels. So she was particularly interested to learn how new drugs are able to target them. “I’m really, really hopeful that these are going to help a lot of people who deal with pain in their everyday life,” Hays says.
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