First impressions may be misleading: this image is not a photograph of a star emitting a set of solar flares. It is a microscopic crude oil droplet covered in a film of oil-degrading marine bacteria. These bacteria play a ...

This image shows undergraduate field assistants catching Beameria venosa, a species of cicada only found on the clifftops overlooking the Mississippi floodplains of southern Illinois. Unlike many other species of cicadas, ...

Granular materials such as packing of randomly organized rods have been studied experimentally, while numerical methods are yet to be established. Our simulation approach captures the dynamics of elastic rods and contact ...

What happens if there was no tree in our world? What if there was no greenness in the landscape surrounding us? When you open the window of your room or classroom what do you prefer to see? A green landscape with a variety ...

This artwork is a study on the work of Francisco Toledo (on the right), an indigenous Mexican artist from the state of Oaxaca. This piece mimics the color pallet used in several of his works where earth tones abound, along ...

Navigating a crowded dance floor is just like a particles journey within a cell; both require complex science and great artistry. Whilst humans rely on our senses to move through crowds, particles 10000 times smaller than ...

Let us begin with this amazing fact about our livers - almost 2/3rds of your liver can be transplanted to another human being, and it'll grow back to its original size in both the bodies. However, in many liver diseases, ...

This network picture was constructed from children's friendship nominations in an elementary classroom. Three clusters emerge naturally and could be identified in different colors. Children's popularity and classroom ...

I spent the Fall 2014 semester in Austria researching the policies and decision making processes involved in wind farm development within the federal state of Burgenland. For this capstone project, I gave special attention ...

This microscopic image of my rice leaf surface exhibiting stomata and other cells arranged in patterns leaves be baffled how much non randomness exists in the universe. Given the life on earth occurred randomly, how minuscule ...