nanoscale views

Because of real life constraints I'm a bit slow off the mark compared to others , but I've just finished reading The Quantum Labyri...

It seems like every few weeks these days there is a breathless essay or editorial saying science is broken , or that science as a whole is ...

See here for part 1 .   Recall, we had been studying electrical conduction in V 5 S 8 , a funky material that is metallic, but on one type o...

I am going to try to get the post frequency back up now that some tasks are getting off the to-do list.... Last year, we found what seem...

Sorry for the light blogging - between departmental duties and deadline-motivated writing, it's been very difficult to squeeze in much b...

My readers know I've complained/bemoaned repeatedly how challenging it can be to explain condensed matter physics on a popular level in ...

As has happened periodically over the last couple of decades (I remember a scare about this when Newt Gingrich's folks ran Congress in t...

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...