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Static electricity, quantum geometry, Hubbard model, + news", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/08/brief-items-static-electricity-quantum.html", "published_at": "2025-08-08T00:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-1f9d-70e7-bc09-064390a7d057", "title": "Research experience for teachers - why NSF education funds matter", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/07/research-experience-for-teachers-why.html", "published_at": "2025-07-23T21:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-1f9d-70e7-bc09-0643919752ce", "title": "The latest on US science funding", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-latest-on-us-science-funding.html", "published_at": "2025-07-18T19:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-1f9d-70e7-bc09-0643925888ed", "title": "US science funding - now time to push on the House appropriators", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/07/us-science-funding-now-time-to-push-on.html", "published_at": "2025-07-11T13:29:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-1f9d-70e7-bc09-064392ab1659", "title": "New updates + tetrahedra, tunneling times, and more", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-updates-tetrahedra-tunneling-times.html", "published_at": "2025-07-09T03:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-1f9d-70e7-bc09-064393423cad", "title": "Science slow down - not a simple question", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/06/science-slow-down-not-simple-question.html", "published_at": "2025-06-30T15:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a029b5775c2", "title": "Cryogenic CMOS - a key need for solid state quantum information processing", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/06/cryogenic-cmos-key-need-for-solid-state.html", "published_at": "2025-06-28T18:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a029c56b119", "title": "Brief items - fresh perspectives, some news bits", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/06/brief-items-fresh-perspectives-some.html", "published_at": "2025-06-21T19:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a029c79a417", "title": "So you want to build a science/engineering laboratory building", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/06/so-you-want-to-build-scienceengineering.html", "published_at": "2025-06-15T13:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a029cf1b71f", "title": "A precision measurement science mystery - new physics or incomplete calculations?", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-precision-measurement-science-mystery.html", "published_at": "2025-06-07T18:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a029d2593b8", "title": "Pushing back on US science cuts: Now is a critical time", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/06/pushing-back-on-us-science-cuts-now-is.html", "published_at": "2025-06-01T15:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a029d907c8a", "title": "Quick survey - machine shops and maker spaces", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/05/quick-survey-machine-shops-and-maker.html", "published_at": "2025-05-29T15:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a029dc6c146", "title": "How badly has NSF funding already been effectively cut?", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/05/how-badly-has-nsf-funding-already-been.html", "published_at": "2025-05-22T13:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a029ec4091b", "title": "A science anecdote palate cleanser", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-science-anecdote-palate-cleanser.html", "published_at": "2025-05-19T01:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a029ee0fd3b", "title": "Updates, thoughts about industrial support of university research", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/05/updates-thoughts-about-industrial.html", "published_at": "2025-05-05T14:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a029f742353", "title": "NSF, quo vadis?", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/04/nsf-quo-vadis.html", "published_at": "2025-04-25T13:50:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a062b97b", "title": "A Grand Bargain and its chaotic dissolution", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-grand-bargain-and-its-chaotic.html", "published_at": "2025-04-20T18:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a156d405", "title": "Talk about \"The Direct Democracy of Matter\"", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/04/talk-about-direct-democracy-of-matter.html", "published_at": "2025-04-15T13:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a1ee5858", "title": "US science situation updates and what's on deck", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/04/us-science-situation-updates-and-whats.html", "published_at": "2025-04-14T02:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a20cb0e1", "title": "What is multiferroicity?", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/04/what-is-multiferroicity.html", "published_at": "2025-04-12T20:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a287cb75", "title": "Science updates - brief items", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/03/science-updates-brief-items.html", "published_at": "2025-03-30T22:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a28a35da", "title": "March Meeting 2025, Day 4 and wrap-up", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-meeting-2025-day-4-and-wrap-up.html", "published_at": "2025-03-20T20:36:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a2a9a330", "title": "March Meeting 2025, Day 3", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-meeting-2025-day-3.html", "published_at": "2025-03-20T03:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a2dac55d", "title": "March Meeting 2025, Day 2", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-meeting-2025-day-2.html", "published_at": "2025-03-19T05:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a30ff8f3", "title": "March Meeting 2025, Day 1", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-meeting-2025-day-1.html", "published_at": "2025-03-18T04:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a36791ec", "title": "March Meeting 2025, Day 0", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-meeting-2025-day-0.html", "published_at": "2025-03-17T01:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a3e73feb", "title": "The 2025 Wolf Prize in Physics", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-2025-wolf-prize-in-physics.html", "published_at": "2025-03-12T01:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a3fc898d", "title": "Some updates on the NSF and related issues", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/03/some-updates-on-nsf.html", "published_at": "2025-03-06T19:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a4a53596", "title": "What is \"static electricity\"/\"contact electrification\"/triboelectricity?", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/what-is-static-electricitycontact.html", "published_at": "2025-02-24T02:54:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a5610597", "title": "The National Science Foundation - this is not business as usual", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-national-science-foundation-this-is.html", "published_at": "2025-02-20T02:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-2d11-726e-8282-8a02a5addac0", "title": "What are parastatistics?", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/what-are-parastatistics.html", "published_at": "2025-02-16T16:32:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

The NSF memo - why is it so concerning to many?original ↗
18 Sept 2026
Science communication - importance, insightsoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2026
Negative thermal expansionoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
NSF, spending, and the end of the fiscal yearoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2026
Lab safety - seriously, be careful out thereoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2026
Recent superconductivity results + open positions at Riceoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2026
NSF - public comment, APS feedback opportunityoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2026
Reproducibility in materials research, and an anecdoteoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2026
PhDs - how long a doctorate should take, and a new pilot programoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
Papers and news itemsoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2026
A brief serious note about mental health and well-beingoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2026
A few optics/metamaterials highlights from META 2026original ↗
18 Jul 2026
Bad to worse at NSF? (July 2026 edition)original ↗
14 Jul 2026
OMB proposed rule changes - act noworiginal ↗
6 Jul 2026
Some science/tech items - scrolls, nanostacks, and beyondoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2026
Bad to worse at NSF? (June 2026 edition)original ↗
23 Jun 2026
What is weak localization?original ↗
20 Jun 2026
What is localization?original ↗
16 Jun 2026
Thermometry at the mK scale, revisitedoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
NAS "State of Science" 2026 addressoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
Info gathering: Excellent intro undergrad lab courses and facilities?original ↗
27 May 2026
The Manhattan Project and public communicationoriginal ↗
25 May 2026
Brief items - news roundup, AI, international issues, good readingoriginal ↗
23 May 2026
What are heavy fermions?original ↗
17 May 2026
NSF, National Science Board, and the politics of staying quietoriginal ↗
12 May 2026
Energy storage in the internal states of molecules - old and neworiginal ↗
2 May 2026
News items and essays to readoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2026
Floating magnets to sense magnetic fieldsoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2026
Disorder and illuminationoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2026
FY27 Presidential budget requestoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2026
Brief science items and newsoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2026
AI and the practice of theoretical physicsoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
APS March Meeting 2026, Day 4 and wrap-uporiginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
APS March Meeting 2026, Day 3original ↗
19 Mar 2026
APS March Meeting 2026, Day 2original ↗
18 Mar 2026
APS March Meeting 2026, Day 1original ↗
17 Mar 2026
Some science leading into the APS Global Physics Summitoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2026
RIP Tony Leggettoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2026
AI/ML, multiscale modeling, and emergenceoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2026
Updates: The US government and STEM researchoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2026
Data centers in space make no sense to meoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2026
What is the Aharonov-Bohm effect?original ↗
1 Feb 2026
What is superconductivity?original ↗
25 Jan 2026
What is the Kondo effect?original ↗
11 Jan 2026
Updated: CM/nano primer - 2026 editionoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2026
What are dislocations?original ↗
3 Jan 2026
EUV lithography - a couple of quick linksoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2026

2025

Public comment period re US science, ends Dec 26original ↗
24 Dec 2025
An open position at Rice, Assistant or Associate Professor of Advanced Computational Materialsoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2025
The NSF MRSEC program - end of an era?original ↗
10 Dec 2025
Taking stock: some federal science newsoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2025
What is the orbital Hall effect?original ↗
29 Nov 2025
Quantum geometry - some intuitionoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2025
Vortices everywhereoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2025
Science journalism - dark timesoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2025
Interesting preprints: chirality-induced spin selectivity + quantum gravityoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2025
Postdoctoral opportunity in materialsoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2025
2025 Physics Nobel: Macroscopic quantum tunnelingoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2025
ACS National Nanotechnology Day webinar, Thursday Oct 9original ↗
5 Oct 2025
Annual Nobel speculation threadoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2025
Fluid mechanics of electronsoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2025
H-1B visas and academiaoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2025
DOE Experimental Condensed Matter Physics PI Meeting 2025 - Day 3 and wrap-uporiginal ↗
11 Sept 2025
DOE Experimental Condensed Matter Physics PI Meeting 2025 - Day 2original ↗
11 Sept 2025
DOE Experimental Condensed Matter Physics PI Meeting 2025 - Day 1original ↗
10 Sept 2025
DOE experimental condensed matter PI meeting, + other itemsoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2025
25 years of Nano Lettersoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2025
Learning and AI/LLMs - Why do we need to know or teach anything anymore?original ↗
24 Aug 2025
20 years of Nanoscale Views, + a couple of things to readoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2025
Brief items - Static electricity, quantum geometry, Hubbard model, + newsoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2025
Research experience for teachers - why NSF education funds matteroriginal ↗
23 Jul 2025
The latest on US science fundingoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2025
US science funding - now time to push on the House appropriatorsoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2025
New updates + tetrahedra, tunneling times, and moreoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2025
Science slow down - not a simple questionoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2025
Cryogenic CMOS - a key need for solid state quantum information processingoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2025
Brief items - fresh perspectives, some news bitsoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2025
So you want to build a science/engineering laboratory buildingoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2025
A precision measurement science mystery - new physics or incomplete calculations?original ↗
7 Jun 2025
Pushing back on US science cuts: Now is a critical timeoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2025
Quick survey - machine shops and maker spacesoriginal ↗
29 May 2025
How badly has NSF funding already been effectively cut?original ↗
22 May 2025
A science anecdote palate cleanseroriginal ↗
19 May 2025
Updates, thoughts about industrial support of university researchoriginal ↗
5 May 2025
NSF, quo vadis?original ↗
25 Apr 2025
A Grand Bargain and its chaotic dissolutionoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2025
Talk about "The Direct Democracy of Matter"original ↗
15 Apr 2025
US science situation updates and what's on deckoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2025
What is multiferroicity?original ↗
12 Apr 2025
Science updates - brief itemsoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2025
March Meeting 2025, Day 4 and wrap-uporiginal ↗
20 Mar 2025
March Meeting 2025, Day 3original ↗
20 Mar 2025
March Meeting 2025, Day 2original ↗
19 Mar 2025
March Meeting 2025, Day 1original ↗
18 Mar 2025
March Meeting 2025, Day 0original ↗
17 Mar 2025
The 2025 Wolf Prize in Physicsoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2025
Some updates on the NSF and related issuesoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2025
What is "static electricity"/"contact electrification"/triboelectricity?original ↗
24 Feb 2025
The National Science Foundation - this is not business as usualoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2025
What are parastatistics?original ↗
16 Feb 2025
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