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Fluctuations in Body Temperatures
Aaron Ramey, Michael Ellison and David White
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 ...
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Carbon Nano Onions
Arno Rettenbacher and Luis Echegoyen
Carbon Nano Onions (CNOs) are species where several fullerenes (buckyballs) having various diameters arrange themselves -- Russian doll-style -- concentrically one inside the other. That is why ...
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Oyster Cell Making Oyster Shell
Josh Mount and Andrew Mount
This pseudocolor scanning electron micrograph image shows an oyster blood cell, or hemocyte, moving across the surface of newly formed shell. These cells manipulate calcite plates (visible ...
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X-ray Scattering of a Polymer Fiber
Paulo Lopes and Martin Beagley
Polymers (plastics) are made into fibers for many different uses. The way the fibers behave when they are in use depends on the material they are made from and how the polymer chains are ...
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Curious Eye
