Claudio Pellegrini, a pioneer of our LCLS X-ray free-electron laser, was celebrated on his 90th birthday at a symposium to honor his contributions to the lab and the scientific community: stanford.io/4k1PbKC

Yes, growth of a wide bandgap insulator on a diamond quantum sensor works to reduce spin noise and surface traps...just like CdSe/ZnS QDs! A big step toward a better nanoscale sensor Great work from the Maurer Lab from UniversityofChicago phys.org/news/2025-05-d… pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Its Open Source! More great work from the Meriles Lab City College of NY studying nanoconfined water with NV centers. Water behaviour impacts catalysis, geophysics, biology, etc... Collabs include Lehman College, Brooklyn College and The University of Manchester pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Swimmers and divers with Cal Poly raised $9M to save their program and the University is turning the $9M down...not a good sign for athletics in the CSU. Sonoma State University has already cut 100% of their sports sfgate.com/collegesports/…

This footage is spectacular! The expression on the pilots face is telling.... We should all have moon roofs and "eye of the hurricane" roofs on our cars and airplanes Hurricane Erin - Air Force flies through the eye and see satellite views youtu.be/56cpAEnrSi4?si… via YouTube

Inaugural Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar at ccny position is up on CUNY jobs ($75 K plus benefits) They are searching for an Molecular Beam Epitaxy and STM expert! Collaborate with Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/re…

Register and gain Expert advice on grant writing with Dr. Poree, Science Integration Officer. Highlighting best practices for persuasive writing and collaborative engagement on 08/27/2025 Army Research Office: A Guide to Proposal Writing us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

"The more you learn and know about the world, the more mysterious it gets." Craig Mello speaks about the mystery of our world. He was awarded the 2006 medicine prize for discoveries of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA.

#A new chemical process converts PET #PlasticWaste into a material that efficiently captures CO₂, offering a scalable solution to both #PlasticPollution and greenhouse gas emissions. University of Copenhagen Science Advances doi.org/g92svx phys.org/news/2025-09-s…

Congrats Raman Kumar of the Meriles Lab ccny ! Great article published in Nature Nanotechnology Nitrogen Vacancy Centers couple to new metasurfaces Quantum emitter discovery in diamonds enables a new type of coupling phys.org/news/2025-09-q… via Phys.org

With worries of PFAS forever chemicals in water, food and soil, this new paper investigating water-oil interfaces is very timely from Meriles Lab City College of NY SSRL Brooklyn College Lehman College #QuantumSensors advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

The IDEALS CREST Center U.S. National Science Foundation ccny had a great event with Profs. Webb, Alu and Bishop on Halloween Day! Need to design a polariton system? Ask Andrea Alu of CUNY ASRC ... Congrats Karamoko Soumahoro (Sfier Lab) who won for singlet fission processes! nature.com/articles/s4146…

#A subterranean #Spider #Colony spanning 106 square meters in a sulfur cave on the Albania–Greece border hosts over 100,000 spiders, forming a rare, multilayered communal web structure. doi.org/g989qz phys.org/news/2025-11-s…

In case you didn't see Ashok Ajoy's group at Berkeley contributed to the new Willow chip algorithm that claims impressive performance! The author list is dizzying, great work Google Quantum AI and Ajoy Lab @ Berkeley and collaborators nature.com/articles/d4158… nature.com/articles/s4158…

You have heard of Magic Erasers and now we have magic diamonds! Congrats Camron and Tsz! Covalent attachment of melamine on nanodiamond surfaces using a bromide terminated surface for surface dipole engineering. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi… Art work from Greg Stewart SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Twenty-five years after its launch, Wikipedia now competes with chatbots — but its creator Jimmy Wales still has faith in humans when it comes to sourcing facts go.nature.com/49A0hCL

2 Bay Area icons have passed away recently, one being Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and the other is Claude the Albino Alligator. Friend BrokeAssStuart shared a special event for Claude and is here: calacademy.org/events/special… Long Live Bobby and Claude!

Professor Ozgur Keles, PhD is hiring UNC Charlotte PhD Students & Postdoc Openings — Ultrafast Laser Nanomanufacturing PhD students and a postdoc to work on ultrafast laser nanomanufacturing Email [email protected] with your CV + 2–3 sentences on your relevant experience.

Great lecture tomorrow at 11 am EST covering nanodiamond as a photocatalyst with the Adamas Nano Virtual Series! Diamond experts J Jean-Charles Arnault and Hugues Girard will explain the finer details of photoemitted charge from diamond into H2O! adamasnano.com/virtual-lectur…

NYC Venture Capital SUMMER bootcamp for undergrads has an application deadline of Feb 28th! Please share out with your students and networks The City University of New York and NYCEDC collaboration supermomos.com/nycedc/students