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Released: 15-Jul-2024 10:05 AM EDT
'Twisters' Draws From Storm-Chasing Science Led by Nebraska Expert
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'Twisters' draws from storm-chasing science led by Nebraska expert

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Released: 10-Jul-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Research Highlights Tiktok as Tool in Opioid Harm Reduction
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Welcome to Pocket Science: a glimpse at recent research from Husker scientists and engineers. For those who want to quickly learn the “What,” “So what” and “Now what” of Husker research.

   
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Released: 12-Jun-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Study Shows Politicians Deny Misdeeds Because We Want to Believe Them
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

According to a newly published study led by a University of Nebraska–Lincoln political scientist, the answer may be that their supporters prefer a less-than-credible denial to losing political power and in-group status because of a discredited standard-bearer.

   
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Released: 10-Jun-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Study: Wire-Cut Forensic Exams Currently Too Unreliable for Court
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

A research article published June 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highlights the importance of careful application of high-tech forensic science to avoid wrongful convictions.

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Released: 22-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Food for Thought: Study Links Key Nutrients to Slower Brain Aging
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Scientists have long been studying the brain with a goal of aiding healthier aging. While much is known about risk factors for accelerated brain aging, less has been uncovered to identify ways to reduce cognitive decline.

   
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Released: 7-May-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Construction Begins on Groundbreaking Precision Ag Research Center
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Construction of the National Center for Resilient and Regenerative Precision Agriculture at Nebraska Innovation Campus launched with a ceremonial turning of dirt on May 6.

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Released: 2-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Nebraska Researcher Helps Untangle History of Fallow Deer
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

An environmental archaeologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Perdikaris maintains a research station on the Caribbean island of Barbuda where, despite the species’ status as national animal and cultural emblem, the fallow deer population could face extinction as a result of over-hunting and massive environmental destruction caused by Hurricane Irma in 2017.

Newswise: Barnes to perform inside ‘Greenpoint’ for Lincoln Calling
Released: 24-Apr-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Barnes to perform inside ‘Greenpoint’ for Lincoln Calling
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Paul Barnes, the Marguerite Scribante Professor of Piano in the Glenn Korff School of Music, will be performing a special program of composer Philip Glass’s works inside “Greenpoint,” a sculpture by Richard Serra on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s City Campus at noon, May 1. The performance is free and open to the public.

 
Newswise: Carson Center offers game-changing expertise to research, industry
Released: 10-Apr-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Carson Center offers game-changing expertise to research, industry
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Edgeworks, a new research and service facility launched by the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is helping scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs transform cutting-edge concepts into game-changing reality.

Newswise: Revesz decodes ancient sphinx’s mysterious message
Released: 7-Feb-2024 6:05 PM EST
Revesz decodes ancient sphinx’s mysterious message
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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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Released: 7-Feb-2024 11:50 AM EST
Dawes’ deep dive into Marley lyrics spurred by lifelong love, Jamaican connections
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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 record player.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
Surgical robot developed at Nebraska launches into space
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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.

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Released: 27-Nov-2023 4:05 PM EST
Husker expertise featured in new Antarctic study
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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.

Released: 24-Oct-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Study explores relationship between crowdfunding sites, backers
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Why would someone decide to give their money to help a stranger bring a creative project to life?

Newswise: Nebraska researchers converting plant wastes into antimicrobial agents
Released: 18-Sep-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Nebraska researchers converting plant wastes into antimicrobial agents
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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.

   


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