nanoscale views

There's a new asap paper in Nano Letters that is very slick. There has been a lot of interest in the last few years in plasmonics - th...

Four items, and a physics post later in the week. Is "just-in-time" supply chain management truly the work of the devil, or merely...

Not a physics post, but an observation. There is a major event going on in Iran right now - protests involving many thousands of people; ri...

No, I have not compiled my blog postings into dead-tree format. Nor have I finished my textbook based on my graduate nanoscale physics cour...

Two papers appeared on the arxiv in the last couple of days concerning the very hot topic of quantum-limited measurement. I'm no expert...

Several minor things.... I've got an article on single-molecule electronics coming out in the June issue of Physics World . It's re...

Reading Eugenie Reich's Plastic Fantastic brought me right back to the heady days of my postdoc, job search, and nearly a year spent wi...

I was in Barnes & Noble yesterday evening and saw a copy of Plastic Fantastic in their science section. This is Eugenie Reich 's t...

By now many of you have run across Wolfram|Alpha , billed by its creator as a "computational knowledge engine". I've been goo...

Many of us know the joy of getting email from, err, enthusiastic amateurs claiming to have solved all of the great problems of modern physic...

Two recent arxiv papers caught my eye. I'm not working on graphene, but these are both pretty interesting results. arxiv:0905.0923 - M...

I saw the new Star Trek movie last night, and it was extremely fun. Great special effects, with nods to all the appropriate elements of th...

At the workshop I'd mentioned, because of time constraints only 11 of the participants had the chance to give full talks. To try to get...

I just finished attending a three-day workshop near Washington, DC sponsored by the National Nanotechnology Initiative (and other "pa...

Shameless self-promotion part II. The actual scientific result that just came out in Nature is rather surprising. There are two "ordi...

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...