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Revesz decodes ancient sphinx’s mysterious message

For nearly two centuries, scholars have puzzled over an inscription of just 20 characters, cast upon an unusual bronze sphinx statue believed to have originated in Potaissa, a Roman Empire military base camp located in present-day Romania.
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Surgical robot developed at Nebraska launches into space

A surgeon’s hands could stretch 250 miles above Earth, should an upcoming test of a miniaturized surgical robot aboard the International Space Station prove successful.
31-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Study explores relationship between crowdfunding sites, backers

Why would someone decide to give their money to help a stranger bring a creative project to life?
24-Oct-2023 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Nebraska researchers converting plant wastes into antimicrobial agents

Nebraska researchers are converting plant wastes into antimicrobial agents that could help prevent pathogenic infections and death while significantly lowering the cost of antimicrobial treatments and being a boon to the bioeconomy.
18-Sep-2023 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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NSRI, NU awarded $24.5M contract to develop acute radiation syndrome prophylactic

Researchers from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and University of Nebraska Medical Center, with guidance and administration from the National Strategic Research Institute, are advancing development of a first-of-its-kind prophylactic to help...
11-Sep-2023 10:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

11 projects funded through Grand Challenges competition

High-impact research projects that will use quantum approaches to address climate resilience and sustainable energy; scale up educational programs for at-risk children in Nebraska and support the early childhood workforce; and make food plastics...
28-Aug-2023 10:55 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Husker engineers earn grant to protect military bases against EV-based attacks

Most are watching the gradual shift from gas-powered to electric vehicles through the mirrors of the environment, climate or automotive industry.
20-Jun-2023 2:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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Dawes’ deep dive into Marley lyrics spurred by lifelong love, Jamaican connections

Victorious over the many booby traps that guarded his older brother’s bedroom, a 17-year-old Kwame Dawes perched on the edge of his sibling’s neatly made bed and relaxed as the rhythms of a new Bob Marley and the Wailers album flowed from the...
7-Feb-2024 11:50 AM EST

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Husker expertise featured in new Antarctic study

A multinational team of scientists, drillers and engineers has deployed to a remote part of Antarctica on an urgent mission to predict how fast the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will melt from global and ocean warming.
27-Nov-2023 4:05 PM EST

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