nanoscale views

...and then I'll get back to science. The pending announcement of the Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry next week should provide so...

You know you're dealing with a serious, high quality scientific journal when the publisher spams basically anyone who's ever reviewe...

This is one of my (thankfully, for some) rare forays into political issues on this blog. If you're a practicing scientist, engineer, or...

Sci-Fi author Greg Egan , via John Baez : Save the New Scientist . Basically the British magazine New Scientist used to be very good - li...

Two papers from the past week, the first of which gives us a chance to discuss one of the on-going controversies in condensed matter physics...

Sorry for the downtime; the semester has begun, and this past week I also went to the annual meeting of Packard Fellows, which is a wonderfu...

I have avoided talking too much about my own research here, with the intent of maintaining a broader perspective on CM and nanoscale physics...

Two papers that are fun to talk about because of more than just the science: cond-mat/0608576 - Klimczuk et al ., Superconductivity in Mg_1...

You know, I like Neil deGrasse Tyson - he does a huge amount for public outreach about science, and has even appeared on the Colbert Report...

In a comment to my previous post, Alison Chaikin tries to put the Steorn business in perspective, pointing out that many grant proposals co...

By now you've probably heard about Steorn , a company of dubious provenance (used to be an e-business of some kind back during the .com ...

Two recent papers that I find particularly interesting (both of which have now come out in print as well).... cond-mat/0603442 - Sela et al...

Just returned from a conference at which I somehow managed not to hurt anyone with my laser pointer , and I picked up a couple of aphorisms ...

One particular paper caught my eye this week: cond-mat/0608243 - Nakamura et al ., Low-temperature metallic state induced by electrostatic ...

Two papers for now.... cond-mat/0608069 - Zhou et al ., First direct observations of Dirac fermions in graphite This paper is also in press...

As was suggested in a recent comment, now that a nonzero number of condensed matter and nano people are (apparently) reading this blog (at l...

At the suggestion of my colleague , I want to draw your attention to a very interesting and fun article in today's New York Times (free...

A couple of new papers on the arxiv that I find particularly interesting.... cond-mat/0607756 - Zarchin et al ., Bunching of electrons in t...

I thought I'd seen it all this evening when I opened my email to find an extensive warning email about laser pointer safety (!) from the...

Just two papers this time. For the first, I must make a disclaimer: this is certainly not my area of expertise, and I can't really jud...