• Phys­i­cal Vi­rol­ogy

    by Manuel Sánchez — 'Phys­i­cal Vi­rol­ogy.' Such is the ti­tle of the ar­ti­cle that ap­peared in 'Na­ture Physics'. This is the name for a new dis­ci­pline that is un­der de­vel­op­ment. Its fo­cus is the study of viruses from a phys­i­cal per­spec­tive. Seen this way, viruses are nat­ural nanopar­ti­cles...

  • See­ing Dou­ble Is Be­liev­ing

    by Elio — If you've ever longed to take a high res­o­lu­tion look at a bac­terium in a biofilm un­der phys­i­o­log­i­cal con­di­tions and to iden­tify the cells at the same time, here is your chance. Tech­ni­cally-skilled re­searchers at the uni­ver­si­ties of Duis­burg and Mannheim in Ger­many have suc­cess­fully mar­ried two tech­niques, atomic force mi­croscopy (AFM) and flu­o­res­cence mi­croscopy (FM), so that...