nanoscale views

As I struggle with being swamped this semester, some news items: Scott Aaronson has a great summary/discussion about the forthcoming goog...

On the closing day of the PI meeting, some further points and wrap-up: I had previously missed work that shows that electric field can m...

Among the things I heard about today, as I wondered whether newly formed Tropical Storm Imelda would make my trip home a challenge: In ...

The first day of the DOE ECMP PI meeting was very full, including two poster sessions.  Here are a few fun items: Transition metal dichal...

The US Department of Energy 's Basic Energy Sciences component of the Office of Science  funds a lot of basic scientific research, and ...

Faculty position in Astronomy at Rice University The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University invites applications for a t...

Faculty position in Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice University As part of the Vision for the Second Century (V2C2) , which is focu...

More questions  asked  by  Ross McKenzie 's son about the culture/history of condensed matter physics: 3.  What are the most interest...

Continuing, another question asked by Ross McKenzie 's son: 2. Scientific knowledge changes with time. Sometimes long-accepted ``fact...

Ross McKenzie , blogger of Condensed Concepts , is working on a forthcoming book, a Very Short Introduction  about condensed matter physics....

On Sunday I was fortunate enough to be able to speak at the first day of a week-long symposium at the American Chemical Society national me...

I've been asked by student readers over the years about how scientists come up with research ideas.  Sometimes you make an unanticipated...

I have written before ( here , here ) about the IBM Zurich group that has used atomic force microscopy in ultrahigh vacuum to image molecul...

While I've rotated out of my "member-at-large" spot on the APS DCMP executive committee, I still want to pass this on.  Having...

Writing writing writing.  In the meantime: This is a very solid video about physics careers - especially at around the 10 minute mark.  ...

Ferromagnets are solids, in pretty nearly every instance I can recall (though I suppose it's not impossible to imagine an itinerant Ston...

I just returned from some travel, and I have quite a bit of writing I need to do, but here are a few items of interest: No matter how man...

It was very distressing to read this news article in Nature  about the treatment of scientists of Chinese background (from the point of vie...

One aspect of experimental physics that I've always found interesting is the funny, specialized expertise that can be very hard to trans...

As I've mentioned before, there is a lot of discussion lately about the physics subject GRE.  The exam  is intended to cover a typical u...