nanoscale views

I've linked to Dustin Sandlin before.  He does a fantastic series of YouTube videos that are readily accessible by a lay audience and s...

I see that Scientific American is reorganizing its blogging efforts .  I hope it works out well for them.  Call me if you want someone to bl...

We just completed the two-day kickoff symposium of the Rice Center for Quantum Materials .  It was a good meeting, and the concluding panel...

I helped out a colleague of mine today, who was fact-checking a couple of sentences in a story that's going to come out in a large circu...

Three superconductivity-related things during the crazy end-of-semester time crunch.  First, the paper that I'd mentioned here has be...

It's hard for me to believe that over eight years (!) have passed since I wrote this .  Recently I've been thinking about this again...

Yesterday I came across this video series , put up by "EngineerGuy" Bill Hammack .   It shows a mechanical analog computer origina...

Because of the vagaries of British copyright law and their lack of the concept of "fair use", I am not allowed to use clever littl...

I was also asked: " I would like to see a post addressing how to handle a paper sent back by the editor for another round of reviews....

A commenter wrote the following:  "About PRL, I do have a concrete question. You've been around for some time, I am new in the bus...

Skyrmions are described somewhat impenetrably  here  on wikipedia, and they are rather difficult beasts to summarize briefly, but I'll g...

I haven't done this in a while.  Are there any particular subjects that you would like me to address, or concepts to explain?  It's ...

Here are some things that I wanted to share with my readership: My friend Arjendu Pattanayak (founder of a very good blog ) pointed out t...

I've talked before about how condensed matter/materials physics/engineering is so ubiquitous that it somehow fades into the background, ...

We were very fortunate last week to host Paul McEuen for our Chapman Lecture series (previous speakers here ).  NAS member, successful nove...

It's that time of year again - go ahead and speculate away in the comments about possible Nobel laureates in physics or chemistry.  Natu...

Hello readers - As I'd mentioned previously, I've written a nano textbook that's going to come out next year.  I'd like to a...

I just read that NPR is getting rid of Robert Krulwich's excellent science blog , allegedly as part of cost-cutting.  Cost-cutting?  Rea...

In the 21st century, with the prevalence of air travel, global near-instantaneous communications, and active cultures of well-financed scien...

It's been a few years since I've written a post slamming some piece of hype about nanoscience.  In part, I decided that all this-is-...