nanoscale views

Hello all - I have just heard from Dan Arovas, program chair of the APS March Meeting, that the APS has decided to cancel the meeting, which...

Update:  This event is going to be postponed until the fall semester. For those in the Houston area: Spread the word -  The Festiva...

As we head out of a very intense week here and toward the March APS meeting, a few brief items: Speaking of the March Meeting , I hear (u...

While setting up my eddy current bounce demonstration , I was able to film some other fun physics. Heat transfer and two-phase (liquid+g...

Changing a magnetic field that permeates a conductor like a metal will generate eddy currents .  This is called induction , and it was disco...

I realized it's been several years since I've run a version of this, and it's the right season.... This is written on the assu...

As one of the only surviving nano-related blogs, I feel somewhat obligated to write a post about this.  Charles Lieber , chair of the depart...

One of the great things about a good university is the variety of excellent talks that you can see.  Yesterday we had our annual Chapman L...

Here are some items of interest: An attempt to lay out a vision for research in the US beyond Science: The Endless Frontier .  The evolv...

The Wolf Prize in Physics for 2020 was announced yesterday, and it's going to Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Allan MacDonald , and Rafi Bistri...

I'm looking more seriously at trying to do some popularly accessible writing about condensed matter.  I have a number of ideas about wha...

Happy new year.  As we head into 2020, here are a few links I've been meaning to point out: This paper  is a topical review of high-t...

Crystals are fascinating.  Somehow, for reasons that don't seem at all obvious at first glance, some materials grow in cool shapes as s...

Modern outdoor decorations owe quite a bit to modern science - polymers; metallurgy; electric power for the lighting, fans, sensors, and mot...

(In response to a topic suggestion from the Pizza Perusing Physicist....) Neuromorphic computing is a trendy concept aimed at producing ...

Here are some tidbits that came across my eyeballs this past week: I just ran into this article from early in 2019.  It touches on my di...

I wrote recently about phases of matter  (and longer ago here ).  The phase that tends to get short shrift in the physics curriculum is the ...

Today we had a seminar at Rice by Qian Niu of the University of Texas, and it was a really nice, pedagogical look at this paper  (arxiv ver...

Here are a few interesting results I stumbled upon recently: This preprint has become this Science paper that was published this week.  ...

Many many people have written about how to write scientific grant proposals, and much of that advice is already online.   Rather than duplic...