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| 07/19/2005 |
CROP project to set up large cosmic ray air shower experiment July 21Participants in this week's Cosmic Ray Observatory Project workshop at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will set up a large cosmic ray air shower experiment on UNL's City Campus July 21 as the culminating exercise in the weeklong workshop. Startin… |
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| 03/22/2005 |
Scientists model 'Lord of the Nanorings'It's possible that no one gets more use out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's PrairieFire supercomputer, than Xiao Cheng Zeng and his collaborators. In the past five years, they have used PrairieFire to model a list of previously unknown nanosc… |
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| 02/23/2006 |
Successful test of first world worldwide grid computing infrastructureA global collaboration of physicists and computer scientists announced Feb. 15 the successful completion of a test of the first truly worldwide grid computing infrastructure. Grid computing is the coordinated use of computers that are spread around t… |
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| 12/13/2006 |
Researchers included in Discover magazine's top 100 science storiesFor the second time in three years, University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members figure in two of Discover magazine's top 100 science stories of the year. The magazine ranked ecological research that involved biologist Johannes "John" Knops as the … |
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| 11/24/2009 |
UNL involvement in Large Hadron Collider startupThe first particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland, took place Nov. 23 and the high-energy physics team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is already at work… |
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| 03/31/2008 |
NSF grant to allow completion of beetle study in Central America, MexicoJoni Mitchell sang in a 1970 hit that "You don't know what you've got till it's gone." That line could be the theme song for research by University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists and others to study the biodiversity of beetles in Mexico, Guatemala an… |
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| 05/18/2011 |
Kiowa photographer Poolaw is focus of spring Great Plains QuarterlyIn the spring issue of Great Plains Quarterly, an academic journal published by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, researchers wrote about Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw and his contributions to American Indi… |
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| 05/14/2009 |
Fulbright expands student's HIV study, takes her back to AfricaThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Nithal Kuwa has received a Fulbright grant that will take her to Zambia for nine months, where her research could have a profound effect on the medical treatment of the more than 1.8 million children in sub-Sahara… |
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| 03/25/2010 |
Encounter leads to new ice discoveries by UNL teamSometimes in science, new research pathways are generated by unexpected suggestions. That's what led Xiao Cheng Zeng and his research group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to their latest series of discoveries about the behavior of materials -… |
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| 05/24/2012 |
Northern Cheyenne ag, Nebraska suffrage, beekeeping in GP QuarterlyIn the spring issue of Great Plains Quarterly, an academic journal published by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, researchers wrote about the construction of the Northern Cheyenne Reservatio… |
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| 08/23/2010 |
Study: Protect 'communities of interest' when drawing new House districtsThe age-old practice of dividing congressional districts evenly by population speaks to such American ideals as fairness and equality. But when a county's residents are carved into separate districts simply to maintain that numerical parity, many end… |
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| 10/20/2010 |
UNL researcher's finding could sway thought on climate changeA newly published paper written by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher and his team could influence the way scientists think about global warming and its effects. Researchers found that a major pulse of ancient global warming may have been m… |
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| 02/14/2011 |
Collaboration leads to discovery, confirmation of unexpected form of iceWater is the most abundant liquid on Earth, but the more scientists study it, the more surprises they seem to find. That's nowhere more true than with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Xiao Cheng Zeng and his collaborators. A pioneer in the study… |
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| 09/15/2011 |
Study: When it comes to college student 'hookups,' more is said than doneCollege students talk about hooking up – a lot. In fact, they talk about it much more than it actually happens, and they believe other students are having the encounters more often than they actually are, as a new study shows. The research from th… |
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| 02/1/2012 |
Political biology: The left rolls with the good, the right confronts the badFrom cable TV news shows to red-meat speeches on the campaign trail, our nation's deep political stereotypes are on full display: Conservatives paint self-indulgent liberals as insufferably absent on urgent national issues, while liberals say fear-mo… |
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