nanoscale views

Arguably the greatest technical and manufacturing achievement in all of history is around us all the time, supporting directly or indirectly...

One of the truly remarkable things about condensed matter physics is the idea that, from a large number of interacting particles that obey c...

As many readers know, the quest for a practical room temperature superconductor has been going on basically ever since Kamerlingh Onnes dis...

There is a new paper here  that argues through dimensional analysis for an upper limit to the speed of sound in solids and liquids (when the...

There is a postdoc opportunity coming up in my lab to look at light emission from molecular-scale plasmonic nanostructures.  It's going ...

It's that annual tradition:  Who do people think will win the Nobel this year in physics?  Or chemistry?  On the physics side, I've ...

 I've written before about the Einstein-deHaas effect - supposedly Einstein's only experimental result (see here , too) - a fantast...

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor Positio...

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in astronomy in the gene...

Sometimes it takes a while to answer a scientific question, and sometimes that answer ends up being a bit unexpected.  Three years ago, I wr...

This past week was a great one for my institution, as the Robert A. Welch Foundation and Rice University announced the creation of the Wel...

The start of the academic year at Rice has been very time-intensive, leading to the low blogging frequency.  I will be trying to remedy that...

The run up to the new academic year has been very time-intense, so unfortunately blogging has correspondingly been slow.  Here are three int...

The shocking explosion in Beirut yesterday was truly awful and shocking, and my heart goes out to the residents.  It will be quite some time...

The "tunneling time" problem has a long, fun history.  Here is a post that I wrote about this issue 13 years ago (!!).  In brief,...

An impromptu science experiment this morning.  A few months ago we acquired some very nice insulated tumblers (initially from causebox  and ...

Sometimes when looking at the pace of results coming out of the 2D material community, I am reminded of an old joke from Tom Lehrer about s...

While no one knows right now whether the 2021 March Meeting will be in person, online, or some hybrid form next spring, now is the time to p...

Who doesn't need more videos to watch these days? Erica Carlson  has started a new Quantum Coffeehouse  video series , including intervi...

Some further items of note: There is great anxiety and frustration over the latest pronouncement from DHS/ICE about international students ...