nanoscale views

Some interesting science results recently, but I wanted to talk about one a little off the beaten path.

We are less than one month away from the end of the federal fiscal year, and traditionally there are internal deadlines for agencies to allocate their final spending by around September 9.

This past week was a genuinely horrific reminder of the importance of lab safety, especially in the realm of hazardous chemicals.

Much as I feel like I should write about the latest developments in US science policy, instead I want to point out two exciting recent superconductivity results.

In case you weren't aware, in addition to the OMB proposed rule changes which just concluded their public comment period, the NSF has put forward proposed changes in their proposal procedures for public comment, and the last day for feedback is August 24.

Yesterday I attended the 40th annual summer research colloquium of the Smalley-Curl Institute at Rice, a fun internal conference that provides a great opportunity for undergrads (including visitors), graduate students, and a few postdocs to present their…

I think it's safe to say that most people who've considered the issue think that a doctoral degree in the sciences and engineering in the US often takes too long.

First, some science, clearing out a number of papers and articles that I've been collecting for some time in my far-too-numerous browser tabs: I've written before (here) about dimensional analysis and similarity, techniques commonly used in the engineering

I've been blogging for 21 years now (!!)

This past week I attended META 2026, the 16th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, at Trinity College, Dublin.

When I wrote this post last month, I really did not want it to be first in a series.

For non-US folks, feel free to skip.

Some brief science and technology items heading into the weekend: IBM has reported making prototype chips for the "0.7 nm node".

This is a US research ecosystem post.

A few days ago I wrote about localization, where waves in a medium can become trapped due to interference by scattering off disorder.

Physicists love simplifying idealizations, and this is especially true in the physics of materials.

It's been almost a decade since I last wrote about this topic, and a preprint on the arXiv this week is a good jumping off point for more discussion.

I watched the webcast of the NAS State of Science address by outgoing NAS president Dr.

Introductory undergraduate labs are a recurring challenge at nearly every university.

The Manhattan Project was the largest government sponsored research and development project of its time.

Several items worth reading about as we head into a long weekend in the US.

I'm surprised that I haven't written about heavy fermions as a separate post before, so here we go.

As I mentioned previously, the National Science Board was summarily fired on April 25.

A science story first, then a US research ecosystem story later.

First, some inside-baseball US funding discussion.