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Biologists (left to right) Eileen Hebets and Alissa Anderson have shown that the male nursery-web spider improves his odds of surviving a sexual encounter with a cannibalistic female by wrapping his mate's forelegs with silk prior to copulation.

Study finds sexual restraints protect male spiders from cannibalism

March 1, 2016

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Dmitry Oleynikov, a UNMC professor of surgery, operates a surgical robot as in the background Shane Farritor, a UNL engineering professor, adjusts the camera on the surgical subject in June 2015. The two developed the robot for minimally invasive surgeries. Farritor and Oleynikov's startup company, Virtual Incision, announced March 1 the first use of its miniaturized robot in human surgery.

Virtual Incision mini-robots conduct first known human surgery

March 1, 2016

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Under the direction of Kennedy Center teaching artist and science educator John Bertles, Science of Sound Spring Break Camp participants experiment with sound on musical instruments created from recycled materials at Dawes Middle School in 2014.

Science of Sound camp set for March 10-12

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SciPop talk to focus on science of long-distance running

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UNL-UNMC initiative kicks off with retreat

February 29, 2016

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Liyan Qu, assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering, ecently earned a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation to develop a next-generation power grid transformer.

NSF grant boosts Qu's smart power grid research

February 26, 2016

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SciPop talks to focus on cosmetics, parasites

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Jeff Culbertson, director of landscape operations, operates a battery-powered leaf blower near by Love Library with Landscape Services new electric vehicle in the foreground.

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Several head of cattle in a feedlot.

Nebraska U joins global initiative to reduce methane from livestock

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Husker undergrads, alumna earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

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Color portraits of (from left) Dakota Andrews, Emily Fitzpatrick and Sukaina Al-Hamedi on a red campus background.