nanoscale views

Well, since several folks are commenting on the h parameter , I might as well put in my two cents. The h number is defined here . In b...

Four papers this time, though brief descriptions. Eventually the semester will ease up a bit and I'll have more time to write. cond-mat...

Three papers this time out. The semester is very busy, so not much commentary for a while. cond-mat/0610352 - Wu et al ., Optical metamate...

Presumably any serious job-seekers out there would read about this on the AIP website or in Physics Today, but what the heck - it can't...

I haven't had a chance to watch these yet, but the Vega Trust in the UK has, on line, four full length lectures on quantum electrodynam...

Two papers this time around.... cond-mat/0610107 - Butenko et al. , Electric field effect analysis of thin PbTe films on high-\epsilon SrTi...

...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 ...