Laura Short

Hi everyone! I know I was planning on doing regular updates, but between the holidays, family and personal health problems that all fell by the wayside. But I'm back and am planni...

Properties of lightFTIR and Raman spectroscopy are related techniques forcharacterizing how light interacts with matter. Light is a type of electromagnetic radiation, which also includes radiowaves...

So, super exciting, the project is fully funded!Super giant thank you to everyone who donated and/or shared the link.  You guys are the BEST.From here on out I will move forward wit...

So Experiment isn't set up to provide tangible rewards - the value isn't in a product produced, but knowing you were able to help research to move forward.  That said, I thought it ...

November is Native American Heritage Month, so I thought it would be neat to discuss some of the plant foods that were cultivated and eaten by Native Americans.  I'll start with a handful of plants...

November is Native American Heritage Month, so I thought it would be neat to go through some of the plant foods that were cultivated and eaten by Native Americans.  I started with plants that you m...

I just realized I forgot to post this earlier -On the advice of another PhD student who crowdfunded his research, I've started a FB page.  It is significantly less formal than what I'll be posting ...

The first analysis of archaeological food residue occurred in the 1930s, when Johannes Grüss used basic chemical tests to identify blackresidue on a ceramic vessel as overcooked milk (Craig and Col...