nanoscale views

Several items worth reading about as we head into a long weekend in the US.  Starting with news related to funding and other aspects of US g...

I'm surprised that I haven't written about heavy fermion s as a separate post before, so here we go. (It's a break from thinking...

As I mentioned previously, the National Science Board was summarily fired on April 25.  The NSB nominally advises the National Science Foun...

A science story first, then a US research ecosystem story later. When we think about using molecules to store energy, it's usually in th...

First, some inside-baseball US funding discussion.  Apologies to my international readers, who likely don't care much about this except ...

We've all seen a traditional compass.  A ferromagnetic, magnetized needle is mounted on a rotating bearing (or floated on the surface of...

No, this is not another grim post about the chaotic US research funding environment.  Instead I wanted to write a bit about a good example o...

To the surprise of no one at all, the 2027 presidential budget request is extremely bad for science.  Remember, this is largely a politica...

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...