As the state sitting above the largest portion of the United States' largest aquifer, Nebraska relies on groundwater not just for hydrating but irrigating. In growing corn, soybean and other crops, Nebraska farmers irrigate ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 4, 2024
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The concept of urbanization rests on the population distribution of human beings, more than 50% of whom now live near large, often densely packed groups of other people. But the consequences of that urbanization—shifts ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 7, 2023
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When cattle are fighting flies in the summer, they gather in tight bunches, leading them to eat less while experiencing more stress and discomfort. Beef producers have limited options for controlling the flies that pester ...
Biotechnology
Dec 6, 2023
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Headlamps alone illuminated the trail bisecting the Costa Rican rainforest. Having waded the black of the Tirimbina reserve so often before, Gilbert Barrantes, Laura Segura Hernández and Diego Solano Brenes knew the routine.
Plants & Animals
Nov 27, 2023
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Singular-mode mail and telephone surveys are going the way of the landline—slowly but surely being phased out in favor of more technology-assisted communication.
Social Sciences
Nov 16, 2023
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U.S. college students majoring in STEM fields currently graduate about 20% less often than their non-STEM peers, a resounding clarion call for better assisting those students, especially in their first few semesters. Though ...
Education
Nov 13, 2023
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Why would someone decide to give their money to help a stranger bring a creative project to life? Recent research in the Journal of Consumer Research has found that backers of crowdfunding projects participate, in part, because ...
Social Sciences
Oct 24, 2023
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They number in the thousands, light striking the phalanx of lenses arrayed on a face in geometric pattern, the beams refracting through transparent mounds no wider than a hair.
Polymers
Oct 23, 2023
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Nebraska researchers are converting plant wastes into antimicrobial agents that could help prevent pathogenic infections and death while significantly lowering the cost of antimicrobial treatments and being a boon to the ...
Biochemistry
Sep 13, 2023
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The virulence of a rice-wrecking fungus—and deployment of ninja-like proteins that help it escape detection by muffling an immune system's alarm bells—relies on genetic decoding quirks that could prove central to stopping ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 24, 2023
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