nanoscale views

Social media spread the word yesterday evening that Phil Anderson , intellectual giant of condensed matter physics, had passed away at the a...

As I write this, a very large fraction of the research universities in the US (and much of the world) are either in a shutdown mode or getti...

It's been a remarkable week.  There seems to be a consensus among US universities, based in part on CDC guidelines , and in part on the ...

Just to follow up: The APS is partnering with the Virtual March Meeting , as well as collecting talks and slides and linking them to the ...

In the wake of the cancellation of the 2020 APS March Meeting due to concerns about COVID-19 , an effort has sprung up, the Virtual March Me...

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 ...