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Research in biology and chemistry: Fungal populations, DNA protective chromatin and plastic ingredients This summer, three undergraduates get their hands dirty with scientific research: growing mushrooms, studying yeast DNA, and…

Welcome to Pocket Science: An overview of recent research from Husker scientists and engineers. For those who want to quickly learn the “what”, “what then” and “what now” of Husker research. What? Although the older…

Food is, of course, fundamental to life. But in a perhaps ironic twist, the things we eat fuel some of the greatest threats to the survival of humanity. A growing body of evidence has shown that our industrialized food…

A dream-eating Japanese elephant-like creature called baku, right, is one of the mythical creatures in "Cryptozoo". Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures "Utopias never work." The visually stunning new animated film "Cryptozoo”, Which…

Without question, Teladoc Health (TDOC) has served investors well during the Wall Street rally out of the coronavirus bear market. TDOC share started 2020 at just under $ 84 per share. He ended the extraordinary year in history at…

Humanity's ideas about alien existence often say more about us than the little green men we envision. Our outlook on life beyond Earth reflects our collective hopes and fears about the unknown and technology, as well as our knowledge of…

IT IS NOT a narrative expedient for me to pretend that I can remember my first meeting with Shakespeare. I was living with my parents at the time. There was time to fill before dinner - empty times when I didn't have the will or the need…

FDA approval and the emergence of selective serotonin absorption inhibitors (SSRIs) in the late 1980s transformed psychiatry. Finally, there was an effective and inexpensive drug for depression, one of the world's leading causes of…

Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, attended "Story" on Monday to discuss the nationwide increase in coronavirus cases. Virologists tell host Martha MacCallum that the United States is "very…

FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS: Time Management for Mortals, by Oliver Burkeman. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $ 27.) How would you spend a week if you knew it was the last? Burkeman, a British journalist based in New York, says we are closer to being…