nanoscale views

This past week I attended META 2026 , the 16th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, at Trinity Colle...

When I wrote this post last month , I really did not want it to be first in a series. The inciting incident to write that post was a news ar...

For non-US folks, feel free to skip.  For US folks:  The Office of Management and Budget , which for much of its history has been a compara...

 Some brief science and technology items heading into the weekend: IBM has reported making prototype chips for the "0.7 nm node" ....

This is a US research ecosystem post.  Feel free to skip if this isn't your cup of tea. I'm showing my internet age in thinking that...

A few days ago I wrote about localization , where waves in a medium can become trapped due to interference by scattering off disorder.  This...

Physicists love simplifying idealizations , and this is especially true in the physics of materials.  The simplest decent model for metals, ...