Bill Cannon

Keeping the beat

The rhythm of a human heart, beating along at 70 or so contractions a minute, arises from precisely timed electrical… Read More

May 7, 2009

Lightweight heavyweight

As an avid hockey player for most of his life, Arthur Bernard “Barney” Maccabe recognizes the vital role of speed… Read More

March 20, 2009

Power from plants

Jeremy Smith and his fellow researchers have new fuel for understanding the barriers that keep biomass from becoming an economical… Read More

February 26, 2009

Moving mounds of data

If bytes were pennies and you stacked them, they would go from Jupiter to the sun and back, by the… Read More

February 12, 2009

Going underground

No one can be quite sure what goes on underground, and that’s largely why brothers Daniel and Alexandre Tartakovsky find… Read More

February 9, 2009

More than a bit faster

Imagine trying to find someone in a New York City telephone book if the names were listed randomly. Scientific databases… Read More

December 23, 2008

Interfaces move; algorithms follow

Mathematician James Sethian works on the edge. He confronts one of the most challenging problems in physics: capturing the behavior… Read More

December 5, 2008

Quiet, please

A doorbell’s chime, a telephone’s ring, a teapot’s scream: Momentary interruptions that jar the mind are the bane of deep… Read More

November 18, 2008

It’s a virtual blast

Even if Ralf Deiterding had gazed into a crystal ball when deciding what to study in his native Germany, he… Read More

February 4, 2008

Hot stuff

Paul Fischer is plugging in something that one day could help millions of others tap into safe, clean nuclear energy.… Read More

August 13, 2007