The area of the contiguous United States in moderate drought or worse fell below 50 percent for the first time since last June, according to the latest edition of the U.S. Drought Monitor.
More than 550 of the renowned author's letters are being opened to the public in a new book co-edited by University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor Andrew Jewell. The volume, "The Selected Letters of Willa Cather," presents the author's letters with historical and biographical context.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln and BookLamp have launched a research collaboration involving several U.S. universities that will ultimately allow scholars to access and analyze digital data from thousands of 18th, 19th and 20th century books.
The study maps a decline in advocacy for school prayer starting in the 1970s and accelerating as skeptical Baby Boomers became ascendant. Support remains markedly lower today among Catholics and mainline Protestants yet unwaveringly high among evangelicals.
The findings suggest that in a tightly controlled information environment, issue-related information about a candidate was supplanted quickly from voters’ minds by new data.
Led by Massachusetts, northern states topped this year’s U.S. State Entrepreneurship Index from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The SEI is an annual state-by-state ranking of entrepreneurial activity in all 50 states.
Matthew Jockers combines programming with text-mining to compare 18th- and 19th century authors’ works with one another based on their stylistic and thematic connections. He crunches massive amounts of text to map how books are connected to one another -- from each's word frequency and choice to its overarching subject matter.
Students receiving special-education services for behavioral disorders and those with more obvious disabilities are more likely to be bullied than their general-education counterparts – and are also more likely to bully other students, a new study shows.
The maker of everything from iPhones to PlayStations can’t simply manufacture worker self-worth through pay raises, a new University of Nebraska-Lincoln study suggests.
SpaceX’s launch to the International Space Station opens a new era in commercial spaceflight -- and raises questions about what laws govern private space companies and what legal obstacles affect future human space travel.
More than 40 speakers from around the world will offer diverse perspectives on water and food security at the fourth global Water for Food Conference, May 30-June 1, in Lincoln, Neb.
Entrepreneurs' announced venture to extract water and precious metals from asteroids has generated excitement, but it comes amid a vague legal landscape that could complicate plans for space mining, an international space law expert said this week.
As the 150th anniversary of the DC Emancipation Act approaches, scholars have transcribed and published online hundreds of documents showing who the District’s slaves were, how they lived and how slavery and emancipation changed their lives.
Narcissism, a trait considered obnoxious in most circumstances, actually pays off big-time in the short-term context of a job interview, according to a new study.
Plants subjected to a previous period of drought learn to deal with the stress thanks to their memories of the previous experience, new research has found. The findings could lead to development of crops better able to withstand drought.
Do you imagine your co-workers to be positive, confident and resourceful? If so, chances are that you also display those traits in your own life, a new study finds.
Before the first unmanned drone is flown to gather news, questions and concerns arise -- from how to best use them to deliver news and information efficiently to whether certain uses are privacy or safety threats.
Berkshire Hathaway's pending acquisition of the Omaha World-Herald Co. is true to CEO Warren Buffett’s investment style and should signal an era of innovation in its halls, a pair of scholars said.
To manage credit cards efficiently, it’s important to have a firm understanding of finance. But equally important to good credit-card practices is what you *believe* you know about finance, a national study shows.
You'd likely be disgusted at pictures of a man eating a mouthful of writhing worms, a particularly bloody wound or an emaciated body. But just how much disgust you feel can lend insight into your personal politics.
A first-of-its-kind study suggests that pairing a seasoned pro with a promising prospect in an informal mentorship was significantly more potent in developing strong leaders than formal group training -- but only if protégés were willing to handle blunt criticism, not just empty praise.
Land area under exceptional drought hit record levels in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas amid concerns about how long the conditions may persist, the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said.
New York tops the new State Entrepreneurship Index, a nationwide ranking method evaluating states in business formation and innovation. Washington, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Oregon are right behind.
Atlantis' return to earth marks the end of an era, but also opens an unprecedented age of private and commercial spaceflight that will require international collaboration to keep watch over the practice, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor and internationally renowned space law expert said.
More than seven in 10 low-income families in a new University of Nebraska-Lincoln study struggled to reach adequate levels of nutrition in their diet, researchers said.
Male disability applicants rejected for federal benefits tend to have lower earnings and labor force participation rates than beneficiaries over the decade prior to applying for federal disability benefits.
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln scholar uncovered the previously unknown documents, which shed new light on the legendary poet's post-war thinking and on his published reflections on the state of the nation that soon followed.
Schoolyard taunts of any type can potentially damage a child’s sense of self-confidence. But a new study suggests that a particular kind of teasing – about weight – can have distinctive and significant effects on how pre-teens perceive their own bodies.
Despite the prevalence of technology on campuses, a new study indicates that computers alone can’t keep students from falling into their same weak study habits from their ink-and-paper days.
U.S. military operations to protect oil imports coming from the Middle East are creating larger amounts of greenhouse gas emissions than once thought, new research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln study gauged the prevalence and perceptions of cheating among high schoolers. It found the practice is widespread and many students carry misperceptions about academic dishonesty, and identified student patterns that may help teachers stop it.
A new study suggests that nearly a fourth of women consider themselves “OK either way” about getting pregnant – a wide swath of ambivalence that surprised researchers, and that could reshape how doctors approach many aspects of women’s health care.
NU announced a $50 million founding gift commitment from the Robert B. Daugherty Charitable Foundation for a global Water for Food Institute. The gift, one of the largest in NU’s history, will create a center for research, education and policy analysis on the use of water for agriculture.
Sizeable shifts have occurred within traditionally reliable churchgoing groups – women, southerners and Catholics – that suggest those groups’ overall impact on church attendance rates in the United States has begun to wane.
University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers have taken a significant step in developing a vaccination approach to reverse the neurological damage seen with Parkinson's disease.
Three years ago, theoretical work of a UNL research group predicted a new effect that could revolutionize the field of microelectronics by allowing faster, smaller and more energy-efficient memory devices. Now that theory has been proven.
The high-powered chairman will work with athletes on the fundamentals of finance and investing, and also help the Nebraska Cornhuskers better understand their unique leadership roles in the community.
Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln gives important new information on how plants can change "nitrogen cycling" to gain nitrogen and how this allows plant species to invade and take over native plants.
A team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has figured out a possible way to observe and record the behavior of matter at the molecular level. That ability could open the door to a wide range of applications in ultrafast electron microscopy used in a large array of scientific, medical and technological fields.
Three-dimensional, real-time X-ray images of patients could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a pair of Russian institutes.
In a one-of-a-kind collaboration, University of Nebraska-Lincoln students are working with more than a dozen TV and movie professionals and actors to produce a short film. "They definitely got thrown into the fire and know what it's like to be on a set," said actor Dean Winters. "They're doing great -- it's a great learning experience for them."
A University of Nebraska Medical Center research team has determined that a superfamily of molecules hold the secret to the progression and spread of melanoma -- the deadliest form of skin cancer. The study results were published in today's issue of the British Journal of Cancer.
Water experts from around the world will discuss the global challenge of growing more food with less water at The Future of Water for Food conference May 4, hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the University of Nebraska.
A conference, "Near-Earth Objects: Risks, Responses and Opportunities," will examine the legal and institutional challenges of international protocols if large asteroids or other interplanetary objects come too close to Earth for comfort. The conference also will feature a simulation of a response to NEO impact scenarios. Keynote speaker is Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart.
Last week's collision between U.S. and Russian space satellites has prompted questions over who is at fault while highlighting the need for stronger international regulation of space debris, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor and internationally renowned space law expert said.
By monitoring people's physical sensitivities to things like sudden noises and threatening visual images, political scientists were able to conclude that physiological reactions help predict variations in political beliefs.
Switchgrass grown for biofuel production produced 540 percent more energy than needed to grow, harvest and process it into cellulosic ethanol, according to estimates from a large on-farm study by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
One week ago (Nov. 21), the drilling team passed the 1,000-meter mark in rock core pulled from beneath the sea floor in McMurdo Sound, and with a remarkable recovery rate of more than 98 percent. The end of drilling is scheduled for this weekend, and only a few tens of meters of core remain to be recovered for an expected final total of more than 1,100 meters -- the second-deepest rock core drilled in Antarctica.
In a project that began about a dozen years ago, University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists discovered a gene that has been used to create broadleaf crops that tolerate spraying with the popular herbicide dicamba. Now, even as an industry partner is working to bring dicamba-resistant crops to market, these plant scientists are continuing to explore new and expanded uses for the technology they discovered.
Frequent climate fluctuations on the world's southernmost continent have been so extreme over the past 5 million years that Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf oscillated in size dramatically, and perhaps even disappeared for periods of time when the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may have been smaller, according to scientists engaged in an unprecedented international geologic drilling project.
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