nanoscale views

A very brief post. The new estimate for the cost of ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is approaching $10B/month. For th...

A second interesting discussion going on right now concerns hysteresis in molecular electronic device current-voltage characteristics. Ther...

In the past couple of weeks, two interesting debates have come to my attention in condensed matter circles. The first has to do with electr...

Since Science isn't going to run my letter to the editor, I'll just vent about it here. In last week's issue, Science ran a n...

I recently found out that I'm getting tenure. Hooray! It is strangely anticlimactic, and I think I know why. When you get your PhD, it...

Well, it's finally happened: my friends at Bell Labs are going to be learning to speak French , since Lucent and Alcatel are merging...

There is a great, free article in the Chronicle of Higher Education from back in 2003 that has just come to my attention, about how to spo...

The cover story on the latest issue of Phys. Rev. Letters is quite surprising! A group in Italy have performed what a colleague of mine c...

Slightly delayed because of the joys of grant proposals, here is this week's installment of my quasi-periodic snippets of things I find ...

No cond-mat update this week. I just returned from the March Meeting of the American Physical Society, that annual opportunity to get toget...

Here's a couple of preprints that I've found interesting in the last week. Note that I'm not going to be surveying the publishe...

As I said in my previous post, Nature Physics has run a fascinating piece surveying a number of theorists about the current state of the hig...

There is a very interesting article in the new issue of Nature Physics regarding the twentieth anniversary of the discovery of high temper...

I'm going to try to get more serious about regularly blogging condensed matter physics issues. First, I intend to have a weekly discuss...

Last week David Goodstein from Cal Tech came to Rice and gave a great lecture based on his book, Out of Gas , about the "end of the ag...

Unless you're living under a rock, you've heard about the scandal unfolding involving Dr. Hwang Woo Suk of Seoul National University...

Sorry for the long break. It's been a very busy time in academia. I did finally finish my 100 page review article about single-molecul...

Here's a funky piece of physics discovered in condensed matter research that deserves broader attention because it is so weird . So, the...

Thank goodness the President doesn't really have much to do with setting educational practices in this country. From the transcript of ...

There was an interesting story this morning on NPR about the Templeton Foundation and their efforts to fund physics research. The Templet...