nanoscale views

As we head toward the end of the calendar year, a few items: Google published a new result in Nature a few days ago.  This made a big news...

From the medical diagnostic perspective (and for many other applications), you can understand why it might be very convenient to be able to ...

Foams can be great examples of mechanical metamaterials.   Adapted from TOC figure of this paper Consider my shaving cream.  You might imag...

Fig. 1 from the linked paper Here is a light-hearted bit of research that touches on some fun physics.  As you might readily imagine, there...

 A few tidbits that I encountered recently: The saga of Ranga Dias at Rochester draws to a close, as described by the Wall Street Journal ....

A helpful ad from Science Made Stupid . Since before the development of micro- and nanoelectromechanical techniques, there has been an inter...

Time for blogging has continued to be scarce, but here are a few papers to distract (and for readers who are US citizens:  vote if you have ...