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Opinion: July 2009
In praise of Darwin
Darwin was no physicist, but his approach to science will be familiar to us
How physics can inspire biology
Alexei Kornyshev thinks that physicists and biologists are now working more closely together than ever before, but that barriers to closer collaboration still exist
The call of the wild
Robert P Crease talks to a former string theorist who found what he wanted in science when he applied the tools of physics to fundamental questions in biology
