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A multidisciplinary team helmed by @NebEngineering is exploring how to grow food on space stations, the moon, Mars & other celestial bodies that might eventually sustain the human kind.
Another aim? Establish the first academic center for space ag.
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A @UNLFoodScience study has ID'd gut bacteria with a resistance to cadmium — and the potential to help their more susceptible cousins tolerate the toxic contaminant. @UNL_IANR #PocketScience
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Meteorologists and climatologists often have a tough job explaining climate change to the public. In the Midwest and Great Plains, strong resistance has pushed some out of the field. From @ekrembert: nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/n…
"It's working as a spider web for catching spiders."
Laura Segura Hernández (@Laurachne) & colleagues were venturing through a rainforest when they came along a pirate spider — one about to unleash a hunting technique never before seen. @unlcas @UNLsbs
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The @RaikesSchool's Luke Farritor has helped decipher a scroll that went unread for nearly 2,000 years. And he's letting neither fame nor $40,000 distract him from an even grander achievement. @NebEngineering
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This week's random bit of interview transcript:
"There's no magic buttons I can press to get faster internet in my dorm."
U.S. college students majoring in STEM fields graduate about 20% less often than their non-STEM peers.
An experiment led by @NebEngineering's Mohammad Hasan suggests that AI-based interventions could help. #PocketScience
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"When you have so many things out there, and some of them are in conflict or totally opposite, which ones do you use?" —Qi "Steve" Hu, @UNLSNR/@unlcas
A new Scientific American piece on farmers' almanacs & winter weather addresses that very question. 👇
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Exciting news in the world of agriculture and space exploration! A @UNLincoln team led by @NebEngineering is on a mission to launch a one-of-a-kind center for space agriculture. This big idea aims to grow crops on space stations, the moon, Mars & beyond. ow.ly/uQ4750Q4OGm
"Every time that we've found anything at those super extreme elevations, we're completely blown away. It's really hard to overstate how inhospitable these environments are." —@UNLincoln's Jay Storz on the discovery of mouse mummies atop Andean volcanoes
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Some mummies and blood for #Halloween:
Jay Storz didn't plan for his discovery of mummified mice — 13 of them, no less — to drop in late October. But it didn't hurt, as an avalanche of media coverage would attest. @unlcas @UNLsbs
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The rupturing of arterial plaque can lead to heart attacks & strokes. But a @NebEngineering-led team has now shown that restoring blood flow to arteries may help stabilize it — a finding that could inform new treatments for heart disease. #PocketScience
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.@UNLincoln's Jay Storz and colleagues have discovered mummified mice atop Andean volcanoes nearly 4 miles above sea level.
Analyses suggest that the modest mice scaled the Mars-like peaks on their own — and are somehow managing to live on them. @unlcas
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A @unlchemistry-@NebEngineering team has crafted minuscule lenses that it can expand or contract in mere seconds — modifying their magnification, focal length & other optical properties in the process. @unlcas
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This week's random bit of interview transcript (tie):
"And I figured, well, if there's one dead mouse, maybe there are more."
"But I don't think we need to invoke any transport by the Incas or anyone else."
A study from @UNL_CEHS' Weiwen Chai & Minette Herrick has found links between longer maternity leave & lower attrition in the U.S. military. #PocketScience
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A feat nearly 2,000 years in the making has earned Husker student Luke Farritor a cavalcade of media coverage around the globe. go.unl.edu/stb4 #Nebraska #UNL @RaikesSchool @UNLComputing @NebEngineering
This month’s #ResearchRoundup spotlights a study on the selling points of fiber & an examination of exams beyond the classroom. @UNL_IANR @unlcas
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How short is an attosecond? The # of attoseconds that pass in one second = the # of seconds that pass in 31 billion years.
The late Anthony Starace, a giant of @UNLPhysics, helped advance the field right up until his passing in 2019. ›› go.unl.edu/4nbf
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
