nanoscale views

I just had about the best possible experience with a collaboration that one can expect to have. Indeed, I worry that I've now used up m...

President Obama addressed the US National Academy of Sciences this morning (video link here ). Students, take note. In addition to boosti...

Attention TX state and federal officials with R next to their names. Let me clue you in on a couple of points. 1) Secession is not an optio...

I use the free version of google analytics to do some simple tracking of page views, etc. on both this blog and on my group webpage, just fo...

I fully expect angry comments about this.... Here's how a cold fusion experiment is supposed to work, broadly. One takes an electrochem...

Tonight 60 Minutes is airing a report on cold fusion research. I haven't seen the report, but this whole business is what I was referri...

The governor of Texas doesn't always think before he talks . sigh.

Another in my off-and-on series about condensed matter physics concepts. Everyone has an intuitive grasp of what they mean by "temperat...

I'm working on an article for nonspecialists about a nano topic, and all I can say is, writing concisely for nonexperts is much more dif...

Here are a couple of recent papers that seem likely to generate quite a bit of interest. arxiv:0903.5359 - Voggu et al ., A New Method of O...

Private universities are certainly not immune from economic hard times. Heck, Harvard has more money than any of its competition, and they...

Thankfully, the Texas State Board of Education has managed to do the right thing . Barely. I will make a real CM physics blog posting soon ...

If you're a new equipment vendor at a major conference (say, the March Meeting), don't hand out ballpoint pens so cheap that they ru...

Well, that's that for another APS meeting. I actually left late in the day Thursday, so I don't have too much more to report. I kn...

For the love of heaven, turn off your cell phones. Yes, that includes you, conference speaker who has a lavalier microphone attached right...

More interesting talks on the third day of the meeting. Two invited talks stand out in particular for me. The first was by Prof. Peumans a...

Two days of the March Meeting are over, and it's been fun so far. We've really been lucky with the weather, and it looks like tomor...

Well, it's that time of year again, when I get together with 7000 of my (mostly condensed matter) physicist colleagues for the annual Ma...

Another in my continuing series trying to explain some condensed matter concepts in comparatively jargon-free language. So far I've tal...

Here is a neat little video of Prof. Jim Kakalios , who acted as a science advisor on the forthcoming Watchmen movie . Watchmen is a grap...