nanoscale views

Remember, you should be scared . Very scared . Stop trying to frighten me. To be trite, that's just what the terrorists want. Update: ...

A brief look at three papers from the past week that I thought looked particularly interesting. arxiv:0802.3236 - Bleszynski-Jayich et al ....

One particularly nice paper from this past week: arxiv:0802.0930 - Dolev et al ., Towards identification of a non-Abelian state: observatio...

When probabilities of some events become very low, it can be hard to calibrate your thinking and planning about them. The classic large-sca...

I've had two different conversations in the last couple of days about how people choose where to submit papers, and it's a decent to...

This'll be my last self-referential post for a while. Now that it's out online , I want to write a post about our latest result. A...

I don't want to start a political flamewar, but I find the contrast between these two political ads very striking: Obama's Yes, we c...

I'll write more in the next day or two about what I think is a very exciting new result of ours . For now, I wanted to write a little ...

It took a little work, but I finally did a major overhaul of my group's webpage . It's hard to get a good sense of how important it...

Real life is very time consuming. This is a quick post about a couple of cute papers that are up as asap on Nano Letters at the moment. Cor...

Journals seem to have a love/hate relationship with the arxiv . For years Nature in particular used to campaign actively against electronic...

I will start blogging about actual physics again soon. It's been a busy time lately, between the start of the new semester and having t...

Like many physicists, given my druthers I'd write everything in LaTeX, but there are times when it's necessary to write large docume...

This post is in response to a comment here seeking some advice about nanotechnology, and is relatively brief. What is nanotechnology ? Nan...

Is it a coincidence that every state panel staffed with Rick Perry appointees does something to undermine science education and science lite...

From his new book, I am America (and so can you!) , part of Stephen Colbert's view of science: " 'Why?' -- The question sci...

This article from the NY Times is worth reading. Basically it points out something I've said repeatedly in the past: some corporation...

Now that it's been published online , I can talk about our new paper about magnetite. Back in August I wrote a post about the differe...

As pointed out by Julianne at Cosmic Variance , the president of Harvard had this to say about the combined issue of declining federal scie...

I spent my day at APS headquarters sorting abstracts for the March Meeting, the big condensed matter gathering that now approaches 7000 talk...