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Humans disrupting 66 million-year-old feature of ecosystems

April 21, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

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Arachno-media: Analysis of 5,000+ news stories finds 43% sensationalize spiders

April 18, 2022

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Ruiguo Yang, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is using a $540,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to explore how cell-cell bridges respond to strains of different magnitudes and rates.

Yang advancing work on cell-cell junctions and their link to human health

April 12, 2022

Science & Technology

Rendering of transistor

New transistor could cut 5% from world’s digital energy budget

April 11, 2022

Science & Technology

Close-up of mosquito

Husker entomologist developing next-generation mosquito bait station

April 11, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Gelada monkeys

Analysis yields insights into adaptation of high-altitude primate

March 31, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Close-up of rice plants

Study: Southeast Asia must close yield gap to remain major rice bowl

March 30, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Joseph Yesselman, assistant professor of chemistry, has received a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program, which he will use to develop the first computational model that can reliably predict RNA’s capacity to form tertiary contacts.

Yesselman creating model to study RNA, gamify scientific learning

March 21, 2022

Science & Technology

Katarzyna Glowacka, assistant professor of biochemistry, is using a five-year, nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to study how a process called non-photochemical quenching, or NPQ — a plant’s first-line defense against damage to its photosynthetic machinery — plays a role in enabling miscanthus to fend off cold-induced damage.

Glowacka’s research aims to enhance crops’ tolerance to the cold

March 14, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Patricio Grassini

Grassini is partner in project to optimize crop placement in sub-Saharan Africa

March 9, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

A research paper by Trenton Franz, associate professor of hydrogeophysics at Nebraska, and co-authors points to an innovative irrigation approach that could decrease water use while increasing producer profitability.

Husker researchers develop tool to make irrigation more efficient

March 8, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Rice plant

Study IDs 1,000+ mislabeled, overlooked gene fragments in plants

March 3, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology