nanoscale views

I've been thinking more about explaining what we mean by "insulators", in light of some of the insightful comments. As I...

It's a small world. Just last week I finished reading this book , a very nice biography of Michael Faraday, possibly the greatest exper...

I've been thinking for a while about trying to explain some physics concepts on, well, a slightly more popular level. This is a first p...

The progress in graphene experiments continues. Unsurprisingly, many people are interested in using graphene, a natural 2d electronic syste...

The President-elect has named his science team. Apart from the fact that these folks are all highly qualified (the new administration will ...

I see that New Scientist has an article effectively making fun of the Department of Defense for asking their major scientific advisory pane...

Since the President-Elect has not yet named his science advisor (though his transition team has named point people , and the nominee for Sec...

Please explain to me why we should give AIG another penny.

Two recent papers in the ASAP section of Nano Letters caught my eye. The first is van der Molen et al ., " Light-controlled conductance...

Relatively regularly these days there are calls for a Manhattan or Apollo style project to address our energy challenges. While this may so...

I know that the journal is called Nano Letters, but using the "nano" prefix three times in the title of a paper is a little extre...

As US readers have probably heard by now, Steve Chu has been selected by President-Elect Obama to be the new Secretary of Energy . I think...

From the comments on my last post, it's clear that there are some number of science types out there who view the situation as hopeless: ...

CNN seems to think that's the case . As others have pointed out ( 1 , 2 ), they've decided to close down their science and technolog...

Two brief mentions this week. arxiv:0811.4491 - M. Häfner et al ., Anisotropic magnetoresistance in ferromagnetic atomic-sized metal contac...

Don't take this as a comment one way or the other on D-wave 's actual product claims about building adiabatic quantum computers , bu...

I know that there are many many resources out there on the web about how to give scientific talks (see here (pdf) , here , here , and here ,...

Wow. I guess those rumors about Harvard getting burned playing hedge fund games are true. They're putting in place a staff hiring fr...

Hopefully someone in the vast (ahem.) readership of this blog will pass this along to someone with connections in the Obama transition team....

Many particles possess an internal degree of freedom called "spin" that is an intrinsic amount of angular momentum associated with...