nanoscale views

Lots of news in the last few days regarding federal funding of university research: NSF has now frozen all funding for new and continuing a...

There is a lot going on.  Today, some words about NSF. Yesterday Sethuraman Panchanathan , the director of the National Science Foundation, ...

After World War II, under the influence (direct and indirect) of people like Vannevar Bush , a "grand bargain" was effectively str...

The Scientia Institute at Rice sponsors series of public lectures annually, centered around a theme.  The intent is to get a wide variety o...

Many things have been happening in and around US science.  This is a non-exhaustive list of recent developments and links: There have been v...

(A post summarizing recent US science-related events will be coming later.  For now, here is my promised post about multiferroics, inspired ...

Here are a couple of neat papers that I came across in the last week.  (Planning to write something about multiferroics as well, once I hav...