nanoscale views

As I distract myself from work-related writing that I really need to do, here are a few science-related links: This article in ars technica ...

Matthew Schwartz of Harvard has made a big recent splash, between his public Aspen talk "10000 Einsteins"  a year ago about the r...

Since I headed home early this afternoon, I was only able to go to a couple of talks this morning.  Here are those highlights, and a couple ...

It was another eclectic day at the APS Global Physics Summit.  Here is a selection of highlights based on my stochastic sampling of talks. I...

Today was again a bit random, as I had talks for both one of my students and me, and meetings with folks.  Some highlights: Edoardo Baldini ...

I hit a pretty random assortment of talks on my first day at the APS Global Physics Summit, after catching a very early flight to get to Den...

Next week is the annual APS conference that was once the March Meeting and is now the combined March/April " Global Physics Summit ...

It's been an extremely busy time, and there are all kinds of distressing events afoot.  Talking about new science results or the funding...

I've been attending a lot of talks lately about AI/machine learning and multiscale modeling for materials design and control.  This is a...

Now that we're 6 weeks into the new year, I think it's worth it to do an incomplete roundup of where we are on US federal support of...

There seems to be a huge push lately in the tech world for the idea of placing data centers in space .  This is not just coming from Musk vi...

After seeing this latest extremely good video from Veritasium , and looking back through my posts, I realized that while I've referenced...

A friend pointed out that, while I've written many posts that have to do with superconductivity , I've never really done a concept p...

The Kondo effect is a neat piece of physics, an archetype of a problem involving strong electronic correlations and entanglement, with a lo...

This is a compilation of posts related to some basic concepts of the physics of materials and nanoscale physics.  I realized the other day t...

How do crystalline materials deform?  When you try to shear or stretch a crystalline solid, in the elastic  regime the atoms just slightly r...