nanoscale views

Back in the dawn of the 21st century, the American Chemical Society founded a new journal, Nano Letters , to feature letters-length papers a...

The fall semester is about to begin at my university, and I'm going to be teaching undergraduate statistical and thermal physics.  This ...

Amazingly, this blog has now been around for more than twenty years (!) - see this first post for reference from June of 2005, when I had m...

It's been a busy time that has cut into my blogging, but I wanted to point out some links from the past couple of weeks. Physics Today ...

The beginning of a RET poster session Research Experience for Teachers  (RET) programs are an example of the kind of programs that the Natio...

The US House and Senate appropriations subcommittees have now completed their markups on the bills relevant to the FY26 appropriations for N...

Some not-actively-discouraging news out of Washington DC yesterday:  The Senate appropriations committee is doing its markups of the various...

Here are a number of items from the past week or so that I think readers of this blog might find interesting: Essentially all the news perta...

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...