Health sciences articles within Nature Physics

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• Thesis | 17 January 2023

  Beware the lure of models

  • Mark Buchanan

• Research Highlight | 04 November 2019

  Fall forward

  • Federico Levi

• Measure for Measure | 04 July 2018

  The language of radioactivity

  Hans-Georg Menzel walks us through the complex set of units characterizing radioactivity and ionizing radiation.

  • Hans-Georg Menzel

• Research Highlight | 02 May 2018

  Just wait

  • Federico Levi

• Research Highlight | 02 March 2018

  Ultrarapid microquakes

  • Jan Philip Kraack

• Research Highlights | 01 February 2018

  Scalable vortices

  • Jan Philip Kraack

• Research Highlights | 01 February 2018

  The discovery of skewness

  • Federico Levi

• News & Views | 01 January 2018

  Don’t close the gates

  It seems obvious that restricting travel should help prevent the surge of epidemics. But a new mathematical analysis now demonstrates that mobility often reduces the heterogeneity in population distributions, thereby lowering the epidemic risk.

  • Samuel V. Scarpino

• Thesis | 03 November 2016

  Lifespan limits

  • Mark Buchanan

• News & Views | 01 February 2016

  Unfolding the brain

  The folded surface of the human brain, although striking, continues to evade understanding. Experiments with swelling gels now fuel the notion that brain folding is modulated by physical forces, and not by genetic, biological or chemical events alone.

  • Ellen Kuhl

• Commentary | 06 November 2012

  The sciences converge to fight cancer

  The Physical Sciences–Oncology Centers in the US bring together scientists from all backgrounds to tackle some of the most important questions in cancer research.

  • David B. Agus
  •  & Franziska Michor