nanoscale views

I just read this article at Science's blog, describing how Lamar Smith , chair of the House science committee, basically wants to gut p...

About 3.5 years ago, I posted about the technology used by the CDMS collaboration to look for dark matter using clever solid-state detecto...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and concerns about online education are all the rage these days at universities.  There is a growing rec...

I just found and read a great book, Alsos , by Samuel Goudsmit . The Alsos mission was the Allied dual scientific/military intelligence gat...

I'm on my way back to the US from this workshop at the Universität Regensburg.  It was a fun and interesting meeting, and the quality o...

As I mentioned during the APS meeting, Dan Ralph presented some beautiful work ( for example ) on spin torque devices (where the flow of spi...

Before posting about the APS topics I'd mentioned, I wanted to write a bit about a recent paper that has received quite a bit of attenti...

Due to the constraints of real life, the March Meeting was over for me yesterday afternoon, but I did see a few more interesting talks. In...

Yesterday was again a mix of talks (including three from my group), chatting with friends and colleagues, looking around the vendor show (n...

Yesterday I spent much of the meeting talking with collaborators and old friends, and seeing some invited talks at the sessions associated ...

It's that time of year again, when I get together with thousands of my closest condensed matter physics friends to hear and give talks,...

Time to play catch-up.  Here are some interesting links I've seen recently. How to get a faculty offer - a lecture by John Guttag of ...

Thanks to developments in surface science, surface chemistry, and nanoscience, we now understand far more about the microscopic origins of f...

I was saddened to read of the passing of Bob Richardson , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1996 with his colleague Dave Lee and t...

This is one of those once-every-six-months self-promotion posts about a new paper from our group.  The result is sufficiently surprising, w...

It's been a busy week.  On Monday I gave a colloquium at Pomona College , and visited both there and Harvey Mudd .  It's great to se...

Some scientific claims are so outlandish that they do not pass the "laugh test".  That is, for these claims to be true it would re...

I had been meaning to write a blog post about this for some time, and the recent news article from the BBC and post by ZapperZ inspired me...

While they sound like something you might find in the Skymall catalog, whiskey stones have been touted as a way to cool drinks without the ...

Sorry about the blogging lull.  More to come soon. In the meantime, this is hilarious, distressing, and insightful in equal portions.  I ...