Nephila clavipes is a South American orb-weaver that produces the strongest silk of any known spider species. When the spider is producing silk, it is believed that its body temperature changes ...
Nanocrystalline materials possess grain sizes on the order of a billionth of a meter. They manifest extremely fascinating and useful properties, which can be exploited for a variety of ...
Microbial life is everywhere, affecting the world around us. In Southeastern Utah, microbial communities are found residing in stone and soil. Our studies of these ecosystems are showing that ...
This is an image of freshly roasted coffee beans. It is a wonderful demonstration of the chemical world of a food scientist (i.e., decarboxylation, dehydration, fractionization, isomerization, ...
Attack of the Killer Perkinsus
X-ray Scattering of a Polymer Fiber