Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Mark Hallett , from the NIH Record . Readers of this blog may remember neurologist Mark Hallett , who I featured three years ago in a post ...

Today I want to discuss an experiment that led to the discovery of messenger RNA (mRNA). Why did I choose to focus on one specific experime...

Madison Stockton Spach died recently. An Instagram post by the account for the Duke Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship stated Very sad to rep...

Science Under Siege , by Michael Mann and Peter Hotez. I recently finished reading Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful ...

John Clarke UC Berkeley, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons This year the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke , Michel Devor...

Physics of the Body . My hearing is not what it used to be. It’s not terrible now; I still get along okay. But I find myself asking my wife ...

The Study of Elementary Particles by the Photographic Method. In the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hob...

Most mornings I take a walk to keep myself in shape. Usually I listen to an audiobook while walking, but for some reason my earbuds didn’t r...

One of my scientific heroes is James Clerk Maxwell . Maxwell (1831–1879) was a Scottish physicist known for developing Maxwell’s equations ...

Air and Water , by Mark Denny . In his book Air and Water , Mark Denny asks an oddball question: Why are there so few aerial plankton? In ...