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biological sciences

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

Science & Technology

SciPop talks to focus on cosmetics, parasites

February 23, 2016

Science & Technology

Nebraska hosts Women in Science conference

February 18, 2016

Science & Technology

Study finds ratio between speed of evolution, population change

February 4, 2016

Science & Technology

New Books: Janovy, Leiter publish book updates

February 1, 2016

UNL researchers have identified a target of disease-causing plant pathogens. From left, Panya Kim, Ming Guo, Christian Elowsky, Guangdong Li and Jim Alfano.

Researchers ID target of disease-causing plant pathogens

January 27, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

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Sherilyn Fritz, pictured here at Aconcagua in South America, will will co-direct an international organization that helps study Earth’s past to inform the management of its future.

Fritz named co-chair of climate change body

January 4, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

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Record 8 faculty named AAAS fellows

November 23, 2015

UNL alumna Alaine Knipes poses with schoolchildren during a 2014 trip to Haiti. As part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Knipes worked to help eliminate a mosquito-borne infection that has afflicted millions throughout the country.

UNL alumna traversing globe as CDC disease detective

November 16, 2015

Sci Pop Talk to focus on 'Nightmares of Spiders'

October 21, 2015

Study: Mutational ‘hot spot’ leads to adaptation in high-altitude birds

October 14, 2015

Receipents of the 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program from UNL are (from left) Tasneem Bouzid, Abigail Riemer, William Jamieson and Tyler Corey.

Graduate students earn NSF fellowships

October 8, 2015