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Xia Hong

Discovery bolsters emerging form of digital memory

June 24, 2016

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SciPop speaker to analyze clash of superheroes

March 7, 2016

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The public viewing night at UNL's Behlen Observatory on March 11 will include the Great Orion Nebula.

Behlen Observatory open house is March 11

March 4, 2016

Nebraska hosts Women in Science conference

February 18, 2016

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John Bob Kelty

Kelty retirement reception is Dec. 18

December 11, 2015

UNL physicists gear up for upgrades to Large Hadron Collider

October 28, 2015

Spooky physics demonstrations will take place in the "Basement of Boo."

Behlen Observatory to host Haunted Open House

October 19, 2015

The end of the lunar eclipse on Oct. 8, 2014, the second eclipse in the current tetrad of lunar eclipses.

Behlen Observatory public night is Sept. 27

September 21, 2015

David Sellmyer

UNL wins $3.5M NSF grant for nanoscience center

September 16, 2015

(From left) Haidong Lu, postdoctoral researcher; Alexei Gruverman, professor of physics and astronomy; Evgeny Tsymbal, professor of physics and astronomy; and Tula R. Paudel, research assistant professor. The scientists are affiliated with the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience. Tsymbal is director of the NSF-supported Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at UNL.

Physicists defy conventional wisdom to identify ferroelectric nanomaterial

September 15, 2015

Xiaoshan Xu, assistant professor of physics, has earned a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. The award will further Xu's research into a nanomaterial that could make electronics smaller, faster and more energy efficient.

NSF award boosts Xu's nanomaterials research

September 15, 2015

From left, doctoral students Joshua Beck and Jie Yang with Martin Centurion and Cornelis "Kees" Uiterwaal, associate professors of physics and astronomy.

New study points way to 'filming' molecule-light interactions

September 8, 2015