nanoscale views

Four years ago, this paper caught my attention.  The authors had made a structure with superconducting NbTiN contacts on top of a CrO 2 f...

I am, of course, pleased that Nature Materials ran a news item about our recent paper .  However, they appear to have missed the point a b...

Back in February, 2007 , I mentioned that I thought that making and measuring nanostructures directly out of strongly correlated materials w...

The March Meeting is over, and overall it was good, as usual, and far too large, as usual.  Clearly the favorite topics this year were topol...

This was the title of an invited session yesterday at the APS meeting.  Ivan Schuller put together a very interesting collection of talks, ...

I'm at the APS March Meeting, and as it is every year, it's really too big.  I've largely been spending much of my time at sessi...

In the Wall Street Journal over this past weekend, Peter Berkowitz argues that peer review is a corrupt system with no objectivity and lit...

I know that this will appeal to a differentially small fraction of my readership, but as a native of Pittsburgh of a certain age I am compel...

I'm going to be doing some travel this week, and next week is the APS March Meeting in Portland, OR, so blog posts are likely to be thin...

Zapperz wrote an interesting post that links to an article in USA Today about whether Comedy Central (specifically The Daily Show and The...

A very big story in recent years in condensed matter physics is that of topological insulators, and it's a great tale of finding somethi...

It's not nano-related, but I found this video fascinating.  Clearly technology has gotten to the point where Hollywood can fake just ab...

I was looking at this week's Phys Rev Letters, and I saw this paper being highlighted as an editor's suggestion.  Now, I don't ...

What distinguishes one phase of matter from another?  A physicist would probably say that different phases possess different symmetries.  Mo...

Shocking news out of Alabama yesterday, where three faculty members (incl. the chair) of the biology department at UA Huntsville were shot,...

Superconducting quantum interference devices, or SQUID s, are fascinating gadgets.  Take a superconducting loop with two weak links (e.g., t...

When it first began, I was impressed with the arxivblog .  The anonymous authors did a good and remarkably prompt job of surfing the preprin...

US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is going to be on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" this coming Saturday, presumably doing their...

One aspect of experimental science that never shows up on TV procedurals (NCIS, CSI) is the "lab mystery" - the simple procedure t...

The Female Science Professor is doing a great series of posts about interviewing for faculty jobs.  See here , here , and here , with two mo...