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A giant snowdrop blooms in the gardens on the south side of Love Library. The perennial is one earliest spring flowering bulbs. It is native to Turkey, Macedonia, Bulgaria, southern Ukraine and northeastern Greece.

Is spring springing early in Nebraska?

February 14, 2017

Agriculture & Environment

Discovery could bolster traits of soybeans, other crops

January 30, 2017

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Researchers ID target of immune system’s assault on heart

January 16, 2017

Science & Technology

Kristi Montooth, an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences, displays a bottle containing fruit flies that are the subject of her research. She is a co-author of a new scientific paper investigating the evolutionary causes of fruit flies' tolerance for alcohol.

Study refutes how fruit flies developed alcohol tolerance

January 13, 2017

Science & Technology

Powers of perception may explain evolutionary riddle

January 9, 2017

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Robert Zink examines a bird specimen in the collections of the University of Nebraska State Museum. Zink, professor in the schools of natural resources and of biological sciences and curator of zoology, is co-author of a paper showing that zoologists have significantly underestimated the number of living bird species.

New bird species estimate soars to 18,000

December 8, 2016

Science & Technology

Lecture examines gigantism in spiders

December 1, 2016

Copepod

Study: Predators can drive increase in virus populations

November 10, 2016

Science & Technology

Jay Storz (left), Susan J. Rosowski professor of biological sciences, and Chandrasekhar Natarajan, research assistant professor in biological sciences.

Study: At molecular level, evolutionary change is unpredictable

October 20, 2016

Science & Technology

Project will use drones to survey wetland habitats

October 12, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

A female dark fishing spider (left) and its male counterpart, which sacrifices itself as a food source immediately after mating. A new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Gonzaga University has found that this cannibalism can benefit the male's offspring.

Ultimate sacrifice: Spider's post-sex cannibalism aids offspring

October 6, 2016

Science & Technology

Sunday with a Scientist to explore predators

October 3, 2016

Science & Technology