Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Medical Imaging Physics , by William Hendee and E. Russell Ritenour. I recently learned that William Hendee died on March 14, 2026 at the a...

I’m so worried about the state of American science. The layoffs in government research centers, the budget cutbacks, the difficulty of getti...

The page proofs for the sixth edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology have arrived, and they’ve taken over my life. I’ve g...

From Clocks to Chaos , by Glass and Mackey. Chapter 10 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology talks about nonlinear dynamics , an...

Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is in the news these days because of mRNA vaccines . But how was mRNA discovered? One reason I'm inte...

Over the last few years, I’ve been contributing to a group called  Physics in Medicine . It focuses on how physics contributes to, and indee...

Russ Hobbie and I describe the bidomain model of cardiac tissue in Section 7.9 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . The bid...

“ How Bright is a Firefly? ” by David Silver. My favorite science journal is the American Journal of Physics . I was browsing through recent...

Marcello Malpighi. When discussing distances and sizes in Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I w...

Magnetic Stimulation Using Microcoils: A Skeptical Review. Over the last decade I’ve written a lot in this blog about magnetic stimulation o...