Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Magnetic resonance comes in two types: nuclear magnetic resonance and electron paramagnetic resonance . In Chapter 18 of the 4th edition of...

In Chapter 16 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I mention the radioactive isotope coba...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks , by Rebecca Skloot. For Christmas I received a portable CD player to replace one that was broke...

My idea of a great physics problem is one that is complicated enough so that it is not trivial, yet simple enough that it can be solved anal...

In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I describe how x rays interact with tissue by pair p...

Next month, Russ Hobbie and I will receive the page proofs for the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . I welcome...

Many physicists have shifted their research to biology, but rarely do we learn how they make this transition or, more importantly, why. But ...

In the comments to last week’s blog entry , Frankie asks if there is a way to “safely, reversibly block nerve conduction (first in the lab, ...

When I was a graduate student, my mentor John Wikswo assigned to me the job of measuring the magnetic field of a nerve axon . This experim...

Dropping a feather and a ball in a vacuum to show that they fall at the same rate is a classic physics demonstration. We have a version of t...