nanoscale views

The beginning of the semester is a crazy time, so blogging is a little light right now.  Still, here are a couple of recent papers from the ...

I've returned from the NSF's workshop regarding the successor program to the NNIN .  While there, I learned a few interesting things...

Arthur C. Clarke's most famous epigram is that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."  A ques...

Here are a few neat things that have cropped up recently: The New Horizons spacecraft is finally getting close enough to Pluto to be able ...

There is a paper in this week's issue of Nature (with an accompanying news commentar y by my colleague Jim Tour) in which the authors a...

For the past few years, as I've been teaching honors freshman mechanics, I've tried to work in at least one homework problem based o...

Sorry for the posting drought.  There is a good reason:  I'm in the final stages of a textbook based on courses I developed about nanost...

I mentioned back in February that I'd had the chance to speak at Nerd Nite Houston ( facebook link - it's updated more frequently...

Slow blogging - I've got the usual papers plus working on finishing a really big writing project (more about that soon), combined w/ sum...

There has been a big kerfluffle about Facebook conducting a mass social psychology experiment.  At heart is the issue of informed consent.  ...

Another realization I had at the Gordon Conference:  there are plenty of younger people in condensed matter physics who have never heard abo...

Because of travel constraints I'm missing the last day of the meeting, but here are some thoughts, non-science first: These meetings r...

I am going to be at the Gordon Research Conference on correlated electrons for the next few days. Should be fun, but blogging about such me...

I'd heard rumors about this for a while.  I presume that the posting of this on the arxiv means that some form of this paper is in subm...

This is the 750th post since this blog's inception.  Fun facts gleaned from google analytics: 1) Unsurprisingly, the US leads in blog ...

Chemists (and physicists) often draw molecular bonds as little lines connecting atoms, but actually imaging the bonds themselves is very har...

A colleague of mine was depressed to find, in a reasonably high impact journal, a statement that magnetic nanoparticles obey Coulomb's l...

Blatant self-promotion time:  I was grateful for the invitation to write an editorial about teaching "nano" for Nature Nanotechn...

I've been meaning to do a post on this for a long time.  Five years ago (!) I wrote a post about the meaning of temperature , where I t...

Once again the Breakthrough Prize and New Horizons Prize in fundamental physics are seeking nominations.  See here .  I have very mixed feel...