Nature reporter and ITER obsessive Geoff Brumfiel (right) is at the American Physical Society’s March 2010 meeting. Head over to our In the Field blog to read about how he was astonished by a Foucault’s pendulum (video, below).

He’s also pondered the future of graphene research, finding “the energy and excitement is much diminished” but also concluding that “graphene may be a little bit down this year, but I wouldn’t count it out just yet”.

Just across from Nature’s own stand, a team from the JILA Institute in Boulder, CO, have set up a portable Bose Einstein Condensates. “Its not just a gimmick,” says our Geoff.

And this morning he sat down to listen to “a well-attended session about the greatest fraud in physics history”.

He’s also managed to write about how “”https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100316/full/news.2010.128.html">an obscure class of materials could be used to simulate a slew of exotic particles predicted by physicists but never seen" and “”https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100317/full/news.2010.130.html">a team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving".