nanoscale views

  Michael Filler  is a chemical engineering professor at Georgia Tech, developing new and interesting nanomaterials.  He is also the host o...

As was pointed out by a commenter on my previous post, and mentioned here by ZapperZ , atomic physicist Deborah Jin passed away last week f...

Tomorrow I'll be a participant in an all-day workshop that Rice's Center for Teaching Excellence will be hosting with representativ...

An underappreciated part of a scientific career is "professional service" - reviewing papers and grant proposals, filling roles in...

Over January 13-15, 2017, Rice is going to be hosting one of the American Physical Society's Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Ph...

Rice University's schools of Natural Sciences and Engineering want to make sure that when talented science and engineering undergrad...

A brief non-physics post.  Others have pointed this out , but Amazon's categorizations for books are broken in such a way that they almo...

It was officially announced today that Proxima Centauri has a potentially earthlike planet .  That's great, especially for fans of scien...

Eight years ago I taught Rice's undergraduate Statistical and Thermal Physics course, and now after teaching the honors intro physics cl...

Before the start of the new semester takes over, some interesting, fun, and useful items: Update :. This is awesome.  Watch it. The lac...

There are millions of people around the world without access to drinkable fresh water.  At the same time, the world's oceans contain mor...

I realized that I haven't had an open "ask me" post in almost two years .  Is there something in particular you'd like me ...

There is strong circumstantial evidence that there is some kind of matter in the universe that interacts with ordinary matter via gravity, b...

For those who don't know the term:  Moneyball is the title of a book  and a movie about the 2002 Oakland Athletics baseball team, a te...

Very often in condensed matter physics we like to do experiments on materials or devices in a cold environment.  As has been appreciated for...

Condensed matter physics is tough to popularize, and yet aspects of it are absolutely ubiquitous in modern technologies.  For example:  Near...

Here are a few items: This is fantastic .  Eric Schlaepfer, a hardware engineer at Google, has built a "disintegrated circuit",...

Continuing with my very brief (and necessarily incomplete) summary of the FQMD 2016 meeting at RIKEN at the beginning of this week: Eric ...

There were a number of really interesting talks at the Harvard/MIT sponsored, RIKEN-co-sponsored FQMD workshop this week.   I'm very gr...

At the beginning of last month, the Rice Center for Quantum Materials hosted a workshop "Interacting Quantum Systems Driven Out of Equ...