nanoscale views

A blog about condensed matter and nanoscale physics. Why should high energy and astro folks have all the fun?

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

An open position at Rice, Assistant or Associate Professor of Advanced Computational Materials

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The Rice Advanced Materials Institute  has an open search in the area of computational materials.   The full position posting is here .  Ple...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

The NSF MRSEC program - end of an era?

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Are we witnessing the irreversible deconstruction of an historically successful NSF program, not because of any clear strategy or planning b...
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Saturday, December 06, 2025

Taking stock: some federal science news

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Some general science news:  The New York Times ran an interactive article this week that shows what we all know.  This past year was a very...
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Saturday, November 29, 2025

What is the orbital Hall effect?

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In the course of thinking about how best to revise my too-math-infused post about quantum geometry, I realized that writing about the orbita...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Quantum geometry - some intuition

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There has been a great growing interest in quantum geometry in recent years.  Last week, I heard an excellent talk by Raquel Queiroz about ...
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Saturday, November 08, 2025

Vortices everywhere

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The 2026 APS Oliver E. Buckley Prize in condensed matter physics was announced this week, and it's a really interesting combination of ...
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Saturday, October 25, 2025

Science journalism - dark times

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At this point it's old hat to decry the problems facing traditional news media.  Still, it is abundantly clear in our late stage capital...
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Douglas Natelson
I am a physics professor at Rice University. My group uses nanoscale tools to address open questions in condensed matter physics, the study of the remarkable emergent properties of materials. Views expressed here are my own; they do not represent the views of my employer or any other entity.
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