Nanoscience Spotlights

Oct 17, 2011

Cornell University researchers, including KIC’s J.C. Séamus Davis and post-doctoral fellow Mohammad Hamidian, deliberately create atomic-level disorder in order to probe the workings of heavy fermion compounds. In an interview, Hamidian discusses how this work, and a new tool created at Cornell, may be a significant step toward revolutionizing 21st century technology.

 
Jul 29, 2011

At a glance, a painting by Jackson Pollock can look deceptively accidental: just a quick flick of color on a canvas. A quantitative analysis of Pollock’s streams, drips, and coils by scientists reveals, however, that the artist had to be slow — he had to be deliberate — to exploit fluid dynamics in the way that he did.

 
Jun 15, 2011

At a recent Kavli Futures Symposium, nineteen experts from a diverse range of fields discussed the promise of using the lab to understand and exploit the evolution of organisms -- an advance that may one day be used to develop new vaccines or other biotechnology products.

 
May 22, 2011

Three winners of the 2010 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards offer their insight into the craft of science writing, the process of creating their winning work, the state of science journalism and the similarities between journalism and science.