nanoscale views

My senior undergrad year, Princeton offered their every-three-years-or-so undergrad general relativity course (AST 301), taught at the time ...

There is a feature article in the current issue of Nature titled "The quantum source of space-time", and I can't decide if I...

As I did four years ago and four years before that, I wanted to re-post my primer on how faculty searches work in physics.  I know the old p...

I've seen a number of interesting news items lately.  Here are some that you may have missed. You've probably heard about the rec...

I should've written about this as a Halloween physics scary story, but better late than never....  I'll try to tell this so that bot...

Phase transitions are amazing things.  As some knob is turned (temperature, pressure, magnetic field), a physical system undergoes a sudden...

Resurfacing briefly in the midst of proposal writing, I feel compelled to comment on recent media coverage of Lisa Randall's new book . ...

Friday evening I went to the Katy Independent School District's Robert R. Shaw Center for STEAM , where they were having a Science Movie...

I'm heavily into some writing obligations right now, but I wanted to point out a few things: Obviously this year's Nobel in physi...

A quick question in the hopes that some people in this blog's readership have direct experience:  Anyone work with a table-top scanning ...

It's getting to be that time of year again.  The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced this coming Tuesday morning (EU/US time)....

Things I learned from the last (half)day of the DOE PI meeting: "vortex explosion" would be a good name for a 1980s metal band....

Among the things I learned at the second day of the meeting: In relatively wide quantum wells, and high fields, you can enter the quantum...

Things I learned at today's session of the DOE ECMP PI meeting: In the right not-too-thick, not-too-thin layers of the 3d topological ...

As they did two years ago, the Basic Energy Sciences part of the US DOE is having a gathering of experimental condensed matter physics inve...

Apologies for the slower posting frequency.  Other obligations ( grants, research, teaching, service ) are significant right now. I though...

Ernest Rutherford reportedly said something like, if your experiment needs statistics, you should have done a better experiment.  Sometimes ...

When I was a kid, I heard about the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, a national science fair competition that sparked the imaginations ...

Recently I've come across some good examples of multidisciplinary science communication.  The point of commonality:  narrative tension, ...

I went to an interesting lunchtime talk today by Sergio Kapusta , former chief scientist of Shell .  He gave a nice overview of the oil/gas ...