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Nebraska engineer Fadi Alsaleem believes putting a smart thermometer to the ear could mean putting an ear to the ground for future COVID-19 outbreaks and the consequences of relaxing social distancing.

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While studying student use of digital devices in college classrooms in the United States and Canada, Nebraska Professor Barney McCoy learned Generation Z students are using devices less often in the classroom than their millenial counterparts. His study offers useful perspective for remote teaching of the age group.

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In the second year of a program using digital course materials, University of Nebraska officials calculate 23,000 students have saved about $70 each.

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The work of scientists from the Nebraska Food for Health Center, the Nebraska Center for Prevention of Obesity Diseases and the Food Allergen Research and Resource Center, along with a behavioral economist who studies food choice decisions, will be highlighted during Research Media Day at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Food Innovation Center.

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Research by Nebraska engineers Peter and Eli Sutter points to a way to overcome the challenges of building multi-layered nanostructures

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Aaron Duncan, professor of communication studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discusses how Game of Thrones' characters and plots embodied the ideals of Plato.

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Virologists associated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln found a connection between certain bacteria and high-grade cervical lesions likely to become cancerous.

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Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges announce institute to be based at Iowa State; jointly funded by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Iowa State University.

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A new experimental study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has found that administering a naturally produced hormone to pinyon jays can increase food sharing among the highly social species.

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Some of the best legal and policy minds at the University of Adelaide, UNSW Canberra, University of Exeter and the University of Nebraska College of Law will develop the Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Operations, to be completed in 2020.

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In a new report, a group of University of Nebraska experts determine that a single nuclear warhead could cause devastating climate change, resulting in widespread drought and famine that could cost a billion lives.

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An analysis of Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows women in red states are less likely to hold high-paying, high-status jobs than their counterparts in blue states. Researchers say United States political divide extends into the labor market..

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During the past eight years, photography professor Walker Pickering has taken more than 6,600 photographs of the joy and tears involved with high school and college marching bands and drum corps.

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America's college-educated actually attend church more often than those who lack a degree. The "faith-killing" impact of higher education relates to church-going habits in high school years as well as choice of college.

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An analysis of 105 female college students showed that those with the highest levels of stored iron and the highest fitness levels had better grades than less-fit women with lower iron stores.

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There's perhaps an unintended consequence of the SEC getting better information to investors: Firms paying up to $3 billion of additional federal, state and foreign government taxes in a single year.

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An international team of scientists analyzed grain production in 10 sub-Saharan countries. Although farmers in the region could quadruple production by optimizing plant and soil management, yields still would fall short of demand.

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Andre Maciel, an assistant marketing professor at Nebraska, spent three years studying craft beer drinkers and how they train their taste buds to prefer craft beer over mass-market brands.

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Studying Andean bird species that have adapted to high altitudes, Nebraska biologist Jay Storz and his colleagues find that evolutionary change at the molecular level is idiosyncratic and less predictable.

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The male dark fishing spider is just dying to father some children - and this death wish probably evolved to benefit his offspring, according to new research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Gonzaga University.

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump probably wouldn’t make the University of Nebraska-Lincoln debate team, judging by their respective performances during Sept. 26's first presidential debate.

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Charles E. Cather left an estate gift to create endowed funds to support University of Nebraska-Lincoln scholarship and teaching about renowned author Willa Cather.

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In study for the federal government, University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologists uncover new and sobering details about life for America's homeless youth.

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Alison Stewart, art history professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, uncovers documents showing an Augsburg printer paid the equivalent of $150,000 to Sebald Beham in 1548

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln receives $6.5 million grant to shape state policies; will lead a $26 million national research initiative.

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A survey of 675 students at colleges in 26 states found a growing percentage are using smartphones and other digital devices for non-class purposes. Most students indicate no intention of stopping.

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Nearly $7 million in private donations to the University of Nebraska Foundation enabled the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to build a new "Learning Commons" space in an area that once housed books. The facility is named in honor of the late Adele Coryell Hall, whose husband, Don, serves as chairman of Hallmark Cards Inc., based in Kansas City.

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A $20 million gift from the foundation of the late Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, who was a University of Nebraska alumnus, will will offer Nebraska students an education at the vanguard of new forms of filmmaking and emerging media, such as virtual production, interactive and mobile media, film special effects, augmented and virtual reality, game design and more.

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Parents take out second mortgages, give up jobs and liquidate their retirement savings to help their young athletes, musicians and writers reach top competitive levels

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Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez is a run field manager who coordinates experiments that smash particles together at near the speed of light.

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Once used as surgical anesthetics, ether compounds are used as fuel additives and as components of pharmaceutical drugs, polymers and other synthetic materials. University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist Patrick Dussault is exploring a method to create ethers by combining organic peroxides and carbanions. Preliminary results indicate the peroxide to ether conversion can be developed into a reliable and high-yielding reaction. Dussault also will create a website resource for safe handling of peroxides, which can be dangerously unstable.

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A $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will allow the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology to digitally preserve four major collections of parasite specimens donated to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln during the past five years. The specimens represent the work of four top-ranked U.S. scientists who spent decades collecting and studying worms, fleas, lice and other parasites from around the world.

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A new study by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Metropolitan State University in Denver shows that cultural perceptions and stereotypes can make it challenging for bisexuals to reveal their sexual orientation to friends and family.

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Space law experts at the University of Nebraska say the Philae probe's touchdown on the surface of a comet heightens their mission to resolve the legal dilemmas of space

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An innovative network that has helped farmers save water and energy is honored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture

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Study is a first look at the gender differences in the migration patterns for Great Plains residents in their teens and 20s. It has implications for community and economic development strategies in rural areas.

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln announces the hiring of a nationally prominent chemist as the new dean of its largest college.

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New research from University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty fellow Mitchel Herian, working with psychologists Ed Diener of the University of Illinois and Louis Tay of Purdue University, shows that citizens who live in liberal states tend to be healthier -- but so do those who live in communities where they trust their neighbor.

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln featured several highly ranked colleges and programs in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools 2015.

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Researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Nebraska conduct meta-analysis to conclusively answer whether narcissism and leadership are linked.

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ANDRILL team discovers new species while using camera-equipped robot to explore the waters beneath 250-meter thick Ross Ice Shelf.

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Yields of rice, wheat and corn appear to have maxed out on 30 percent of the world's agricultural croplands, according to a University of Nebraska-Lincoln study published in Nature Communications.

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Researchers led by UNL materials engineers develop a process to incorporate graphene oxide nano fibers as a template to guide the formation and orientation of continuous carbon nanofibers.

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A new study by UNL psychologists Sarah Gervais and Mike Dodd used eye-tracking technology to map the visual behavior of men and women as they looked at images of women with different body types.

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From 1961 to 2008, University of Nebraska Press published this classic text of the American West and Native Studies. It now has regained the rights to the work.

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An archeological team led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Professor Michael Hoff uncovers more Roman treasures at the site of Antiochia ad Cragnum in southern Turkey.

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The University of Nebraska College of Law will open a new frontier in space law by launching a doctorate of juridicial sciences degree (J.S.D.) program later this month.