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.
https://t.co/yTYt78x5hT
@GeitnerSimmons Thank you, Geitner! Grateful for your support throughout this whole transition. For the record: The university's fortunate that you (and many others) are still there to tell its stories. And you can be sure that I'll still be reading them. π
@SciTalker @NebToday Thank *you*, friend! It's been a blast to relive these stories via this awesome bracket. ππ And "Droplet" has always been one of my faves, so I was thrilled to see it wind up on top. π
@szintri @SciTalker I'm still awaiting the breathless coverage those other departures received. π But I'm afraid so. Wasn't by choice; I'll miss covering research here more than I can say. I'll keep reading my colleagues' stories after I'm gone, though, so I plan to stay up on your work!
A @UNLFoodScience study has ID'd gut bacteria with a resistance to cadmium β and the potential to help their more susceptible cousins tolerate the toxic contaminant. @UNL_IANR#PocketScience
https://t.co/3KZv6Ar7T8
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: https://t.co/dWkThdzma5
"It's working as a spider web for catching spiders."
Laura Segura HernΓ‘ndez (@Laurachne) & colleagues were venturing through a rainforest when they came along a pirate spider β one about to unleash a hunting technique never before seen. @unlcas@UNLsbs
https://t.co/CsTlFElSjl
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
https://t.co/oRgCKgwuwx
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
https://t.co/zOMlR1yRRQ
"When you have so many things out there, and some of them are in conflict or totally opposite, which ones do you use?" βQi "Steve" Hu, @UNLSNR/@unlcas
A new Scientific American piece on farmers' almanacs & winter weather addresses that very question. π
https://t.co/7iAb9zwPbc
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. https://t.co/ce7Ursj0jo
"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." β@UNLincoln's Jay Storz on the discovery of mouse mummies atop Andean volcanoes
https://t.co/yV8ti3eRQM
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 β a finding that could inform new treatments for heart disease. #PocketScience
https://t.co/ZzLd8RTW99
Some mummies and blood for #Halloween:
Jay Storz didn't plan for his discovery of mummified mice β 13 of them, no less β to drop in late October. But it didn't hurt, as an avalanche of media coverage would attest. @unlcas@UNLsbs
https://t.co/maQcJZlyJG
@mhermanUNLsbs@UNLsbs@unlcas@UNLresearch π Serendipitous timing, yeah? (The study's already making the rounds at Science, Nature, Popular Science, Scientific American, Newsweek and elsewhere, too.)
.@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 β and are somehow managing to live on them. @unlcas
https://t.co/TYXB9rfns7
@JayStafstrom@unlchemistry@NebEngineering@unlcas Right?? Hydrogels are never not interesting. Also: Now that I'm thinking about that photo through the eyes of an arachnologist, I can see why it might've caught yours. ππππ
A @unlchemistry-@NebEngineering team has crafted minuscule lenses that it can expand or contract in mere seconds β modifying their magnification, focal length & other optical properties in the process. @unlcas
https://t.co/W8HpFS7Gry