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IPF08 Comes to Beantown
Boston, Massachusetts, is primed and ready to host the 2008 Industrial Physics Forum (IPF), held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Vacuum Society (AVS). This year’s theme is...
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Telescopes: The Next Generation
Ever since a 16th-century eyeglass manufacturer in the Netherlands named Hans Lippershey invented the first telescope, the instruments have been getting bigger. In fact, according to Rebecca Bernstein...
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Let It Glow
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, announced just a couple of weeks ago, honored three scientists — Osamu Shimomura, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole and Boston University Medical...
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Bringing MRI to the Nanoscale
Many years ago, as a budding young science writer, I attended a press conference at a physics meeting and heard John Sidles of the University of Washington describe a promising new imaging technique:...
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Catch a Nanoplasmonic Wave
The above image is a segment of the famed stained glass windows in the medieval Sainte Chapelle on the Ile de la City in Paris, France. It’s featured here because Mark Stockman of Georgia State...
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Shine On, Coral Reefs!
Remember a couple of posts ago, when I mentioned the glowing kitties, courtesy of the Nobel-Prize-winning GFP protein, and how it’s revolutionizing bio-imaging? GFP was first isolated from a jellyfish,...
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Up, Periscope
On February 9, 2001, 9 miles off the south coast of Oahu, Hawaii, a US Navy submarine, the USS Greenville, was demonstrating some fairly routine underwater maneuvers for a group of visitors on board,...
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LIDAR Goes Coast to Coast
Hurricanes wreak havoc not just on manmade infrastructre, but also on coastal shorelines, shifting large amounts of soil (through erosion or accretion) that can dramatically reshape coastlines,...
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Farewell to Boston
Yet another whirlwind Industrial Physics Forum has drawn to a close, and yet again, I found myself frustrated at being unable to write about more than a fraction of the fascinating talks I heard over...
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