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  1. Ha, that's our December issue of course! (we should know, our January issue is almost finalized... going into volume 9 now...)
  2. For those without access, an early version of the commentary by Tim Jones (@physicus) is now up on his web site: http://bit.ly/7OXIOD
  3. Our November issue is now out. In particular, this month we take a look at science in second life. http://bit.ly/nmat
  4. RT @physicus: My Commentary in Nature Materials on virtual worlds & Second Life (requires payment or subscription) http://bit.ly/5aTANb
  5. Highlighted in IEEE Spectrum - N Mat paper on how to make a perfect underwater sonar or improve ultrasound imaging http://bit.ly/3GcZDy
  6. In case you missed it earlier - this method of manipulating stem cells with mechanical forces made quite some headlines http://bit.ly/CoOFl
  7. 2- dynamic pump probe studies with ultrafast lasers bring interesting results on metastable states 3- many many open questions in pnictides
  8. 1- interfaces and domain walls/domains is where interesting physics in multiferroics and ferroelectrics emerges, though still much unknown
  9. The concluding discussion session on correlated electrons workshop turns out to be quite successful in distilling relevant trends /jh
  10. Now Fe pnictides, talk by Alan Goldman (Ames). Zaanen: I,would have expected... Goldman: I do neutron scattering, I don't expect... ;-) /jh
  11. Ultrafast studies (eg nice exps by group here at Bessy) may explain the classic problem on how magnetite becomes conducting at Verwey T /jh
  12. More on oxides today from Berlin. Day kicked off with nice reports studying ultrafast excitation of electrons by short laser pulses /jh
  13. And then there was the talk by Zaanen on combining string theory with superconductivity - cool on the surface, mind-boggling in details! /jh
  14. Lesson from session this a.m.: nanoscale effects on single domains and their boundaries bring interesting results, eg in multiferroics /jh
  15. First lesson from Orbital 2009 - conference organizers in this area need to invite Jan Zaanen to guarantee stimulating discussions ;-) /jh
  16. In Berlin for a few days this week, reporting on the "Orbital 2009" workshop - everything related to electronic effects like magnetism /jh
  17. Dissolvable glass makes better implants: http://bit.ly/CXGjR
  18. David Mooney's paper on polymer implants that could help treat cancer highlighted in this week's Economist! http://bit.ly/TVfJb
  19. so, will Graetzel win the chemistry Nobel this year for his solar cells? http://bit.ly/rjezB
  20. Pierre Hoffmeyer says that osteointegration is great when you want an implant to fix in vivo, but very bad when you want to take it out! /vc