nanoscale views

Introductory undergraduate labs are a recurring challenge at nearly every university.  Is the purpose to teach students something about how ...

The Manhattan Project was the largest government sponsored research and development project of its time.  Some things worth noting, in light...

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...