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I participated in a program about 15 years ago that looked at science and technology challenges faced by a subset of the US government. I ca...

The basis for much of modern electronics is a set of silicon technologies called CMOS , which stands for complementary metal oxide semicondu...

As usual, I hope to write more about particular physics topics soon, but in the meantime I wanted to share a sampling of news items: First, ...

A very quick summary of some non-negative news developments: The NSF awarded 500 more graduate fellowships this week, bringing the total fo...

Again, as a distraction from persistently concerning news, here is a science mystery of which I was previously unaware. The role of approxim...

Every week has brought more news about actions that, either as a collateral effect or a deliberate goal, will deeply damage science and engi...

Recent events are very dire for research at US universities, and I will write further about those, but first a quick unrelated survey for th...

This NY Times feature lets you see how each piece of NSF's funding has been reduced this year relative to the normalized average spanni...

Apologies for slow posting.  Real life has been very intense, and I also was rather concerned when one of my readers mentioned last weekend ...

Lots of news in the last few days regarding federal funding of university research: NSF has now frozen all funding for new and continuing a...

There is a lot going on.  Today, some words about NSF. Yesterday Sethuraman Panchanathan , the director of the National Science Foundation, ...

After World War II, under the influence (direct and indirect) of people like Vannevar Bush , a "grand bargain" was effectively str...

The Scientia Institute at Rice sponsors series of public lectures annually, centered around a theme.  The intent is to get a wide variety o...

Many things have been happening in and around US science.  This is a non-exhaustive list of recent developments and links: There have been v...

(A post summarizing recent US science-related events will be coming later.  For now, here is my promised post about multiferroics, inspired ...

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...