nanoscale views

Here are a couple of neat papers that I came across in the last week.  (Planning to write something about multiferroics as well, once I hav...

 I saw a couple of interesting talks this morning before heading out: Alessandro Chiesa of Parma spoke about using spin-containing molecule...

Another busy day at the APS Global Physics Summit.  Here are a few highlights: Shahal Ilani of the Weizmann gave an absolutely fantastic ta...

I spent a portion of today catching up with old friends and colleagues, so fewer highlights, but here are a couple: Like a few hundred other...

The APS Global Physics Summit is an intimate affair, with a mere 14,000 attendees, all apparently vying for lunch capacity for about 2,000 p...

Technically, this year the conference is known as the APS Global Physics Summit rather than the March Meeting, but I'm keeping my blog ...

One nice bit of condensed matter/nanoscale physics news:  This year's Wolf Prize in Physics has gone to three outstanding scientists, J...

Non-blog life has been very busy, and events have been changing rapidly, but I thought it would be a good idea to give a brief bulleted list...

An early physics demonstration that many of us see in elementary school is that of static electricity :  an electrical insulator like a wool...

The National Science Foundation was created 75 years ago, at the behest of Vannevar Bush , who put together the famed study, Science, The E...

While I could certainly write more about what is going on in the US these days (ahh, trying to dismantle organizations you don't underst...

It's been another exciting week where I feel compelled to write about the practice of university-based research in the US.  I've wr...

According to this article at politico , there was an all-hands meeting at NSF today (at least for the engineering directorate) where they we...

My post last week clearly stimulated some discussion.  I know people don't come here for political news, but as a professional scientist...

While I've been absolutely buried under deadlines, it's been a crazy week for US science, and things are unlikely to calm down anyti...

Three papers caught my eye the other day on the arXiv at the start of the new year: arXiv:2501.00098 - J. Yu et al ., "Quantum geometr...

As we head into 2025, and the prospects for increased (US) government investment in science, engineering, and STEM education seem very limit...