nanoscale views

Once again (and it seems like this happens every couple of years ) someone is claiming "success" in a cold fusion experiment. Ba...

Two papers from the past week that caught my eye.... arxiv:0805.3309 - Bunch et al ., Impermeable atomic membranes from graphene sheets Thi...

I want to alert faculty colleagues to a website of which they need to be aware if they teach, particularly undergraduates. I won't link...

There's no question that one of these would be useful to have in the lab. Check out the whole catalog of their products - fun for all ...

A couple of interesting papers, two about graphene and one about a weird fluid mechanics effect. arxiv:0805.1830 - Bolotin et al ., Tempera...

In contrast to the previous post, there have been some fun parts of the job lately. Today was commencement, which is always amusing - I get...

Amazingly, there are graduate-level students out there who do not understand this simple, basic fact. When you're writing a scholastic ...

I'm a member of the AAAS , in part because I support their various efforts, and in part because I like my subscription to Science . How...

I saw two things in Science this week that I found quite interesting. First was a mention in Editor's Choice of this paper from my ol...

Well, it's that time of the year again. Lots of blogging ( here , here , here , here ) about advice to tenure-track faculty (and other...

First, to the readers of this blog, thanks for the recent trend of posting informative links in the comments. I think that this really adds...

Like many of my colleagues, I review lots of grant proposals. Recently I was asked to review one for the Department of Energy, and when I s...

I saw some very good talks this week. First up was a physics colloquium by Stuart Parkin from IBM Almaden. In some very real sense, you...

Even more excitement on the novel FeAs-based superconductors. By my count there are seven more papers ( 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ) on ton...

Yesterday I did an "Ask a scientist" event at the Children's Museum of Houston , as part of their Nano Days events. It was f...

Kuzmenko et al . from Geneva have a PRL out this week titled "Universal Optical Conductance of Graphite". This is a pretty physi...

Another bunch of papers on the arxiv ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ). The last one is particularly interesting - the group reports that replacing lan...

I heard about this at the March Meeting, and now it looks like things are picking up steam . There are a number of papers that have starte...

This is very amusing.

One nice thing about being in a good department that rarely gets discussed is the quality of visitors. We're able to get a good stream ...