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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. news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

@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. 😌

Scott Schrage @ScottSchrage is an immensely talented and creative writer. @civicne, you're very fortunate to have Scott joining your team. Best wishes to all! x.com/CivicNE/status…

@SciTalker @NebToday Thank *you*, friend! It's been a blast to relive these stories via this awesome bracket. 🙏🙏 And "Droplet" has always been one of my faves, so I was thrilled to see it wind up on top. 😌

@szintri @SciTalker I'm still awaiting the breathless coverage those other departures received. 😏 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!

@ScottSchrage @SciTalker @NebToday Wait, final week at the U? I hadn't heard about this. Don't tell me we're losing a president, a chancellor, an athletic director AND @ScottSchrage ?

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 news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

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/news/news-a…

"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 news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

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 news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

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 news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

"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. 👇 scientificamerican.com/article/can-yo…

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 cnn.com/2023/10/31/wor…

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 news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

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 news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

@mhermanUNLsbs @UNLsbs @unlcas @UNLresearch 🙏 Serendipitous timing, yeah? (The study's already making the rounds at Science, Nature, Popular Science, Scientific American, Newsweek and elsewhere, too.)

Just in time for Halloween...high altitude mouse mummies! Great article by @ScottSchrage about the work of @UNLsbs faculty member Jay Storz! news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda… @unlcas @UNLresearch

.@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 news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

@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. 👀👀👀👀

@ScottSchrage @unlchemistry @NebEngineering @unlcas Looks pretty cool!

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 news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

Delighted to see our recent #NSFfunded work highlighted @NSF! new.nsf.gov/news/study-ids…