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Physics World
Volume 22 No 7
July 2009

How physics is changing biology

The quantum life

Paul Davies looks at whether quantum mechanics can explain life

Darwin's legacy

Leonard Susskind examines Charles Darwin's impact on cosmology

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 looks at the barriers hampering physics–biology collaboration

The call of the wild

Robert P Crease on one physicist's switch from strings to things

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Reviews

Between chance and necessity

Andrew Steane reviews Stuart Kauffman's Reinventing the Sacred

Web life: Foldit

How protein folding can be fun

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Optical modelling points the way to PDT progress

Off-the-shelf commercial software is helping medical physicists to enhance photodynamic therapy

Mathematical typesetting gets XML makeover

Siân Harris talks to Barry MacKichan about why his company is bringing XML-based processing to its traditional LaTeX-based software tools

Adaptive-control algorithms take condensed-matter physics into the 21st century

Adam Kollin and John Keem of RHK Technology explain how their firm is helping physicists get the most from scanning probe microscopy

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