Most readers of this blog first got interested in physics for a variety of reasons — be it an inspiring teacher, a good popular-science book, or just a deeply held desire to get to the bottom of ...

Complex network theory has become a key analytical framework in modern physics for studying structure, dynamics, and emergent behaviour in complex systems.

The research group of Professor Hideo Ohno and Associate Professor Shunsuke Fukami of Tohoku University has studied the control of magnetization using a current applied to heterostructures comprising ...

Fractal geometry offers a rigorous framework for describing irregular and self-similar structures that are ubiquitous across nature and technology. This field has profoundly influenced our ...

Cynthia (Thia) Keppel received the American Physical Society’s Distinguished Lectureship Award on the Applications of Physics in 2019 for her pioneering work in proton therapy and for promoting ...

October 1, 2007—Anxious celebrities worried about how their skin looks on high-definition television can attribute their woes to Texas Instruments’ (TI) (NYSE: TXN) Larry J. Hornbeck. He invented ...

Medical Physics is the application of physics research to the medical arts for the design of equipment and techniques used to safely study the human body and diagnose and treat diseases. Medical ...

A physicist and his colleagues have found a new application for the tools and mathematics typically used in physics to help solve problems in biology. A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...

The application of physics principles, methods, and techniques in clinical practice and research has revolutionized the entire medical science field to improve human health and overall wellbeing.