nanoscale views

I've watched the first two episodes of the new adaptation of Foundation .  It surely looks gorgeous, though there are some script chall...

Here are some tidbits from the last day of this year's meeting.  (I didn't really get to see the other posters in my own poster sess...

 More highlights from the meeting.  Office hours for my class conflicted with a couple of the talks, so these are briefer than I would'v...

Somehow I found the first day of the virtual meeting more exhausting than when we do these things in person, probably because I had to go te...

Every two years, the US Department of Energy Experimental Condensed Matter Physics program  has a principal investigator meeting, and I'...

There are back-to-back papers in Nature this week, one out of Columbia and one out of Cornell , using bilayers of transition metal dichalco...

The Hall Effect is an old (1879) story, told in first-year undergraduate physics classes for decades. Once students are told about the Lore...

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions in the broad area of expe...

Thermoelectricity is an old story, and I've also discussed it here .  Take a length of some conductor, and hold one end of that conduct...

 Harmonic oscillators are key elements of the physicist's toolkit for modeling the world.  Back at the end of March I wrote about some...

 It's been a busy week, so my apologies for the brevity, but here are a couple of interesting papers and sites that I stumbled upon: Bac...

What does it take to have a material behave as a metal, from the physicist's perspective?  I've written about this before (wow, I...

 While virtual meetings can be draining (no breaks to go hiking; no grabbing a beer and catching up, especially when attendees are spread ou...

This week I'm (virtually) attending this workshop , which unfortunately is zoom-based because of the ongoing pandemic and travel restric...

 Last Friday, Victor Galitski published a thought-provoking editorial on linkedin, entitled " Quantum Computing Hype is Bad for Scienc...

Hopefully the 2022 APS March Meeting in Chicago will be something closer to "normal", though (i) with covid variants it's good...

Sorry - blogging has been slow in recent days because, despite it being summer, it's been a very busy time for various reasons. Here are...

With the recent passage in the US Senate of an authorization that would potentially boost certain scientific investments by the US, and th...

Because I haven't seen this explicitly discussed anywhere, I think it's worth pointing out that everyday materials around us demonst...

I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed for the Scientific Sense podcast , available on a variety of platforms.  It was a fun discu...