nanoscale views

I just registered for an event that celebrates the 35th anniversary of a particular science and engineering program, and one question they p...

There are some examples of scientific progress that just seem so far above and beyond the norm, it's almost jaw dropping in terms of the...

Proposal writing, paper writing, and course prep are eating a lot of my bandwidth right now, but I wanted to share a few things: David Tong ...

I've written before about cavity quantum electrodynamics .  An electromagnetic cavity - a resonator of some kind, like your microwave o...

 I’m teaching undergrad solid-state for the first time, and it has served as a reminder of how condensed matter physics got off the ground. ...

After I was not chosen to be Speaker of the US House of Representatives, I think it’s time to highlight some brief items: Here is a great bl...

 In the forward-looking spirit of the New Year, it might be fun to get readers’ opinions of their favorite science fiction inventions.  I wr...

Thoughts at the end of another busy year…. Good science is a creative enterprise.  Some stereotypes paint most scientists as toiling away, s...

 This year was a busy one and my overall posting rate is down.  Hopefully the coming year will be a bit less frenetic, but who knows.  A few...

There is a press conference going on right now announcing a breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility at Livermore .   The NIF is an ...

I was busy trying to finish off a grant proposal and paper revisions this week and didn't have the time to react in realtime to the PR o...

Computing is consuming a large and ever-growing fraction of the world's energy capacity. I've seen the essential data in this figure...

I went to a memorial service today at Rice for my late colleague Bob Curl , who died this past summer, and it was a really nice event.  I me...

The last couple of weeks have been very full.   One event was the annual Welch Foundation conference ( program here ).  The program chair f...

As I have posted in previous years, Rice has a university-wide endowed honorific postdoctoral program called the Rice Academy of Fellows .  ...

The NSF Division of Materials Research has been soliciting input from the community about both the biggest outstanding problems in condense...

A couple of years ago I wrote about our work on "above threshold" light emission in planar metal tunnel junctions.  In that work...

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

 Some news items of interest: Three weeks old now, but this story about IBM cooling down their enormous dilution refrigerator setup got my...

Monoclinic VO2, adapted from here As I wrote last year , techniques have been developed in the last decade or two that use the inverse spin ...