nanoscale views

Real life is a bit busy right now, but I wanted to point out a couple of links and talk about what's coming up. I've been looking ...

I just returned from a NSF proposal review panel.  I had written about NSF panels back in the early days of this blog here , back when I may...

I read yesterday of the impending demise of scienceblogs , a site that has been around since late 2005 in one form or other.  I guess I sho...

In the wake of the remarkable results reported earlier this week regarding colliding neutron stars, I wanted to write just a little bit abo...

There is going to be a big press conference tomorrow, apparently to announce that LIGO/VIRGO has seen an event (binary neutron star collisio...

A couple of weeks ago I posted: Anyone out there using a Newport NPC3SG controller to drive a piezo positioning stage, with computer commu...

How does the chair actually hold you up when you sit down?  What is keeping your car tires from sinking through the road surface?  What is k...

As expected, LIGO was recognized by the Nobel Prize in physics this year .  The LIGO experiment is an enormous undertaking that combines ele...

This past week, there was exciting news that the two LIGO detectors and  the VIRGO interferometer had simultaneously detected the same ev...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thz_freq_in_EM_spectrum.png?uselang=en-gb At a thesis proposal talk yesterday, I realized that I...

Anyone out there using a Newport NPC3SG controller to drive a piezo positioning stage, with computer communication successfully talking to t...

Assistant Professor Position at Rice University in Theoretical Astro-Particle Physics/Cosmology The Department of Physics and Astrono...

Faculty Position in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Rice University The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University in...

And from the last half-day of the meeting: Because the mobile electrons in graphene have an energy-momentum relationship similar to that ...

More things I learned: I've talked about skyrmions before.  It turns out that by coupling a ferromagnet to a strong spin-orbit coupl...

I'm pressed for time, so this is brief, but here are some things I learned yesterday: An electric field perpendicular to the plane can...

The Basic Energy Sciences program is part of the US Department of Energy's Office of Science , and they are responsible for a lot of ex...

There is an enormous amount of physics involved in storms and floods.   The underlying, emergent properties of water are key to much of this...

Looks like it's going to be a wet few days, with the arrival of Harvey .   I've mentioned previously that hurricanes and tropical st...

For those readers who are APS members, a reminder.  The deadline for nominations for invited symposia for the Division of Condensed Matter ...