Lisa Smith
Lisa studied chemistry, creative writing and the classics at the University of Melbourne, and holds a PhD in Chemistry focused on nanoparticle synthesis. She has been an editor for Wiley's Materials Science portfolio since 2010, and enjoys writing and editing both fiction and non-fiction in whatever spare time she can find.
Along Came a Spider…

Along Came a Spider…

A study investigating the blue colouring of many tarantulas discovered that it arises due to multilayer interference, yet little or no iridescence is observed.