The study of materials is one of the major areas of science, with legions of researchers in physics, chemistry and materials science working on this topic. Condensed matter physics is one of the largest research areas in physics. Yet, it makes me often uneasy how the benefits of materials science are promoted. It is all [...]
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Gravity weighs in on spectroscopy
April 17, 2011
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In 1814 the German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer observed narrow dark lines in the otherwise continuous spectrum of light emitted by the sun. Hundreds of them. As Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen later showed, these lines correspond to the absorption of light by various chemical elements in the sun. Each element has its own unique [...]
Read moreThe very fabric of research: a visit to the ILL in Grenoble
September 20, 2010
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You look down into a clear pool of water. The water has an appealing blue glow to it that makes you want to dive into it. But this isn’t a swimming pool, it is a nuclear reactor. And the soothing blue glow is not due to the blue paint of the pool walls but caused [...]
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Welcome to my personal blog, where I write about the latest exciting developments in the physical sciences. As editor at one of the leading scientific journals in the physical sciences I bring my own perspective to the latest trends in the field.
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- Great, the physics Nobel prize for graphene! Now don’t overhype it…
- Science in the age of austerity
- Transparency in peer review
- Semiconductor optical switches reach the speed of light
- What are the realistic promises of metamaterials and cloaking?
- The air is getting thinner for silicon’s competitors
- High-risk research can’t be kept secret forever
- The economics of science
- Decisions, decisions
- Transistors reach the single atom limit
- Why fancy illustrations are so wrong
- From ‘abbreviations’ to ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’
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- ResearchBlogging.org News » Blog Archive » Editor’s Selections: Dropout electrons, Single-atom transistors, and Apple/Cracker Pie: [...] continues in the field of quantum computing....
