nanoscale views

For those in the US:  Here is a link for submitting a public comment regarding OSTP 's request for information about  "Accelerating...

The Rice Advanced Materials Institute  has an open search in the area of computational materials.   The full position posting is here .  Ple...

Are we witnessing the irreversible deconstruction of an historically successful NSF program, not because of any clear strategy or planning b...

Some general science news:  The New York Times ran an interactive article this week that shows what we all know.  This past year was a very...

In the course of thinking about how best to revise my too-math-infused post about quantum geometry, I realized that writing about the orbita...

There has been a great growing interest in quantum geometry in recent years.  Last week, I heard an excellent talk by Raquel Queiroz about ...

The 2026 APS Oliver E. Buckley Prize in condensed matter physics was announced this week, and it's a really interesting combination of ...

At this point it's old hat to decry the problems facing traditional news media.  Still, it is abundantly clear in our late stage capital...

This continues to be a very busy time, but I wanted to point out two preprints that caught my eye this week.  Their subjects are completely ...

The Rice Advanced Materials Research Institute is having its 2025-2026 competition for prestigious postdoctoral fellowships - see here:  ht...

As announced this morning, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke , Michel Devoret , and John Martinis , for a ser...

Time for a rare bit of explicit self-promotion on this blog.  This coming Thursday, October 9, as part of the American Chemical Society ...

It’s that time of year again.  The physics Nobel will be announced next Tuesday, and the chemistry prize on Wednesday.  Who will it be this ...

Condensed matter physicists often speak of the "electronic fluid" in conductors, and we use a lot of vocabulary that makes analogi...

Sorry to talk politics. In now-classic fashion, there was a just-before-close-of-business-Friday announcement by the executive branch yester...

 A few more interesting tidbits from the concluding half-day of the DOE ECMP PI meeting: Dmitri Basov showed some of the remarkable experim...

It was another very full day.   I had to pop in and out to attend to some things so I didn't get everything, but here are some physics i...

That was a full day.  Here are some things I learned, beyond the fact that the ballroom here is clearly kept at about 15°C by default.  (Apo...

This week I am attending the every-two-years DOE Experimental Condensed Matter Physics PI meeting.  Previously I have written up highlights ...

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