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Part two of the Biology brief in The Economist is  Cells and how to run them: All life is made of cells, and cells depend on membranes A few...

Next Monday I am giving a seminar, ``The mathematics and physics of virions", for the virtual Pandemic Seminar of the UQ School of Math...

My wife and I are often looking for new science demonstrations to do with children. The latest one she found was "bouncing soap bubbles...

Biman Bagchi has just published a new book, Water in Biological and Chemical Processes: From Structure and Dynamics to Function  Cambrid...

What is the physical code that relates the amino acid sequence to a proteins native structure? How do proteins fold so fast? Can protein s...

A nagging question for the whole field of (classical) molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules is whether they can have an adequate de...

The Journal of Chemical Education paper on chocolate based demonstrations discusses three key classes of molecules. Triglyceride is a majo...

Finding and doing cool science demos to impress children is not hard. However, the problem is that it is easy to fall into the trap that the...

In the process of coming up with new exam questions for my undergraduate thermodynamics and condensed matter course I came across the follow...

In 1983, when I was a budding young student heading off to Princeton to do a physics Ph.D. I had the privilege of spending some time with an...

For the biophysics class BIPH3001 students are required to select one recent scientific paper of interest to them and give a presentation t...

The data in the Figure above changed the face of medical research. It showed for the first time that disease can have a molecular basis. It...

Walter Kauzmann was a pioneer in understanding condensed phases of matter. Two of his most important contributions to science (the hydrophob...