nanoscale views

A (revised) particularly excellent review article was posted on the arxiv the other day, about metal nanostructures as antennas for light ....

There's an article (subscription only, unfortunately) out that has gotten some attention , discussing whether artificial molecular mach...

The OPERA collaboration, or at least a large subset of it, has a revised preprint out (and apparently submitted somewhere), with more data ...

Yesterday I went to an interesting talk here by Eric Toone , deputy director of ARPA-E , what is supposed to be the blue-sky high-risk/high-...

Today we hosted Phil Plait for our annual Rorschach Lecture (see here ), a series in honor of Bud Rorschach dedicated to public outreach an...

As pointed out by Peter Woit , Steve Hsu recently posted a link to an interview with (the late) Sidney Coleman, generally viewed as one of...

Hat tip to Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer , for linking to this video from The Daily Show.  My apologies to non-US readers who won't be ...

As I have done in past years, I'm revising a past post of mine about the faculty search process. My thoughts on this really haven'...

This week's issue of Nature includes an interesting editorial emphasizing how crucial it is that scientists and engineers learn how to ...

I'm buried under a couple of pieces of work right now, but I did want to share a couple of fun science videos. Here is a great example ...

According to this , Google stock may take a hit because their revenues only grew year-over-year by 30% this past quarter. Specifically, ana...

I was going to do a post about quasicrystals and this year's chemistry Nobel , but Don Monroe has done such a good job in his Phys Rev ...

A post on quasicrystals will be coming eventually.... Suppose you're an extremely successful tech company, and you want to make a real,...

It's that time of year again - time to speculate about the Nobel Prizes.  Physics gets announced Tuesday, followed by Chemistry the next...

As many people have now heard , the OPERA collaboration is reporting a very surprising observation.  The OPERA experiment is part of CERN,...

This article is both sad and frustrating.  The coordinating body of the Texas state government that runs the public universities in this st...

The reason I had been looking for that Sydney Harris cartoon is that I was putting together a guest lecture for our university's "R...

I am trying to find a particular Syndey Harris physics cartoon, and google has let me down. The one I'm picturing has an obvious experi...

As a nano person, I feel like I'm practically obligated to comment on this paper , which has gotten a good deal of media attention . I...

A team at Harvard has published in Science a fun and interesting result.  When light passes from one medium to another, there are boundary ...