nanoscale views

I was absolutely horrified to read about this story , about how more than 200 girls were kidnapped in Nigeria by a radical Islamic group bec...

Coincident with the annual US graduate school admission season, I've had a few conversations in recent days where the topic of departmen...

A defining characteristic of crystalline solids is that their constituent atoms are arranged in a spatially periodic way.  In fancy lingo, t...

As long as we're talking about the (alleged) end of science, look at this picture (courtesy of Don Monroe ).  This is demolition work be...

John Horgan writes about science for National Geographic.  You may remember him from his book, The End of Science .   His thesis, 17 years a...

Two of my colleagues ( Dan Mittleman and Vicki Colvin ) put together a Coursera class this past year, " Nanotechnology:  The Basics ...

Suppose I have two identical systems, such as two copies of a mass attached to a spring (anchored to an immovable wall).  Each system by its...

Readers - For a long time now I have been working on a very large LaTeX document (actually built out of a number of sub-documents) that I wi...

This is the first in a series of posts about tropes that recur in (condensed matter/nano) physics.  I put that qualifier in parentheses beca...

This article from the NY Times discusses the funding of science research by wealthy individuals and, by extension, philanthropic foundation...

Last post for a few days.  I want to make a suggestion, though.  Hey large tech companies, like Intel or Google , or for that matter Semate...

Sorry for the brief post, but I could not pass this up. Check this out:  http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1211 I bow down before the awesomenes...

I've been slow about writing a day 3/4/wrapup of the APS meeting because of general busy-ness.  I saw fewer general interest talks over ...

The National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network is, as their page says, "an integrated networked partnership of user facilities, su...

This is a meta-post - I'm writing it while sitting in the back of a session on presenting science to the public.  A brief list of some o...

Observations from the first day of the APS March Meeting: There has been a lot of progress and excitement in looking at layered materials ...

This coming week is the APS March Meeting in Denver.  I'll probably blog about some of the talks, but I may not give detailed recaps as...

The de Heer group at Georgia Tech has a paper in this week's Nature where they present some results on graphene nanoribbons that are ...

The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Lab just published a couple of papers ( PRL and Nature ) about their latest r...

Lately there has been a fair bit of talk ( here , for example, or here ) about whether blogs, particularly those written by scientists, are ...