Face to face at the interface between physics and biology. By Michael Bishop. In the 60 years since James Watson and Francis Crick brought physics and biology together to unveil the molecular ...

Making light work Karen Syres is a regular visitor to synchrotron facilities like BESSY II (above), where she studies surfaces and interfaces using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray ...

Your Mac OS X desktop may become exactly as messy as your real-world one if Apple finally develops this newly-released patent, which describes a 3D desktop that obeys the laws of physics. I have a ...

"The quantitative sciences are becoming a permanent part of biology," said program co-director John Hopfield, a professor of molecular biology whose original training was in physics. The grant will ...

Sylvain Lacroix is a theoretical physicist who conducts research into fundamental concepts of physics – an exciting but intellectually challenging field of science. As an Advanced Fellow at ETH Zurich ...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded KITP $1.6 million for its ongoing interdisciplinary biology initiatives, including workshops, postdoctoral fellowships, and plans for a new summer ...

The broken symmetry at an interface between two different oxides is a source of unexpected behaviour. For instance, the modified orbital physics at the interface can lead to induced magnetism in a ...