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People are more willing to bend their morals when they engage in the political realm

9 months ago news.unl.edu psychology

Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers

15 months ago news.unl.edu health release

Experiments showed microwaving plastic baby food containers can release huge numbers of plastic particles -- in some cases, more than 2 billion nanoplastics and 4 million microplastics for every square centimeter of container.

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Scientists have discovered the first virovore – an organism that eats viruses

22 months ago news.unl.edu

Researchers developed a new magneto-electric transistor could cut 5% from world’s digital energy budget, reduce the number of transistors needed to store certain data by as much as 75% and retain memory in event of power loss

2 years ago news.unl.edu transistor

New influenza vaccine shows signs of protection against dozen-plus flu strains in mice and pigs, including swine flu strains which drove pandemics in 2009 and 1918, outperforming current commercial vaccines, and bolsters promise of a universal flu vaccine for humans.

3 years ago news.unl.edu vaccine

Stressed out: Americans making themselves sick over politics

5 years ago news.unl.edu

Whole ecosystems are shifting dramatically north in the Great Plains, a phenomenon likely linked to human influences such as climate change, says new University of Nebraska-Lincoln research that analyzed nearly 50 years’ worth of data on bird distributions.

5 years ago news.unl.edu

Analysis of more than 2,000 college STEM classes has imparted a lesson that might resonate with many students who sat through them: Enough with the lectures, already

6 years ago news.unl.edu

A recent study has given new meaning to the concept of brain power by suggesting that physical strength might stem as much from exercising the nervous system as the muscles it controls

7 years ago news.unl.edu brain

By focusing laser light to a brightness 1 billion times greater than the surface of the sun — the brightest light ever produced on Earth — the physicists have observed changes in a vision-enabling interaction between light and matter

7 years ago news.unl.edu earth

Without wolves, coyotes have become the de facto top dog throughout the Midwest and East Coast

7 years ago news.unl.edu

Harnessing heat to power computers - Engineers devise thermal diode that allows computing at ultra-high temperatures

7 years ago news.unl.edu

A new study has found neonicotinoids, the world’s most commonly used insecticide, cause queen honeybees to lay as much as two-thirds fewer eggs, jeopardizing the health and stability of entire bee colonies.

8 years ago news.unl.edu