Yves Sciama is a freelance science writer, trained in biology and science journalism, who covers life and environmental sciences. His work has appeared in Science et Vie, Le Monde and other major French-language media, as well as in Science. He has won multiple prizes and fellowships, including a yearlong Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014, and is former president of AJSPI, the French association of science journalists.
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