Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Want a sneak peek at one of the new homework problems tentatively included in the 6th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biolo...

Introduction Today’s question is: do mutations happen randomly, or are they caused by some selective pressure? In other words, are mutations...

What is electromagnetic hypersensitivity ? It’s an alleged condition in which a person is especially sensitive to weak radiofrequency electr...

J. Patrick Reilly died on October 28 in Silver Spring , Maryland, at the age of 87. He was a leader in the field of bioelectricity, and esp...

Medical physicist Willi Kalender died on October 20 at the age of 75. Kalender was an inventor of spiral computed tomography . Russ Hobbie ...

From Brownian Motion to Virtual Biopsy: A Historical Perspective from 40 years of Diffusion MRI, by Denis Le Bihan Denis Le Bihan recently ...

Where can you find trusted information about public health ? Ordinarily, I would say from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Cent...

Yesterday was the International Day of Medical Physics . This event is organized by the International Organization for Medical Physics , and...

In last week’s blog post about A Toy Model for Climate Change , I wrote “The main constituents of the atmosphere—oxygen and nitrogen—are tr...