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Pages Home About Radio Television Educators Wednesday, January 2, 2013 Yogurt Bacteria Could One Day Prevent HIV by Hilary Stohs-Krause, NET News Listen to the story on netnebraska.org On a recent, crisp winter day at a Lincoln grocery store, shoppers perused dozens of different kinds of yogurt: harvest peach, strawberry, Greek, Greek strawberry … the list goes on and on. Yogurt’s a healthy snack for numerous reasons; it’s high in calcium, protein, magnesium and potassium, to name a few. And if a University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor’s research goes the way he hopes, yogurt could one day also keep you safe from HIV. It’s part of the research being conducted by Dr. Shi-hua Xiang , professor with the Virology Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. But to understand how novel his approach is – and the potential it holds, if it proves successful – we need a bit of background first. Read more » at 11:10 AM 381 comments Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Toxic Trash: Nebraska Removes Potentially Dangerous Chemicals From School Science Labs The whine of the hydraulic lift on the back of a cargo truck is sweet music to Dr. Joan Christen. That's because she won't have to worry any more about the chemicals inside the dozen or so boxes leaving the ground - boxes carrying 320 pounds of toxic and potentially hazardous chemicals that were in a science lab at Beatrice High School in Beatrice, Neb., where Christen teaches. Each container has one of those diamond-shaped caution signs - some say "corrosive," some say "flammable." One said "poison." Read more » at 4:45 PM 606 comments Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Tuesday, June 19, 2012 World's Largest Train Yard Employs Unusual Ally to Sort Cars NORTH PLATTE, NE (NET Radio) - Sitting three stories above Union Pacific's Bailey Yard, Merle Stillwell has a job many boys and girls would love - but his role as yard master is not child's play. "It's my job to bring the trains into North Platte, get 'em into the bowl correctly, so I can tell the guy on the other end he's got enough cars to build the train," Stillwell said. "The bowl" is an area, comprising dozens of tracks, where cars are sent - usually one or two at a time - to connect to a train different from the one they arrived on. Bailey Yard handles 14,000 rail cars every day, 3,000 of which are sorted. "These trains can weigh anything from 2,000 tons to maybe 25,000 tons, which is quite heavy." To assist moving something this big, Union Pacific Railroad employs a seemingly unlikely ally: gravity. Stillwell observes the yard from above a man-made hill - one of two at Bailey Yard - that make a big difference on the flat plains west of North Platte. The humps, as they are known, replace the work a locomotive would otherwise do. Read more » at 8:50 AM 490 comments Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels: Nebraska , railroads , science , trains Wednesday, April 25, 2012 North Platte Researchers Seek to Decrease Chemical Drift NORTH PLATTE, NE (NET Radio) - For many in Nebraska, wind is merely an occasional nuisance. But for farmers, it can have an impact on their livelihood. Wind can dry out crops or erode topsoil, and it can also interfere with the chemicals of farming. Read more » at 8:53 AM 146 comments Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Friday, April 20, 2012 Nebraska Science Olympiad Tests High School Students' Mental, Not Physical, Skills LINCOLN, NE (NET Radio) - Class is over at North Star High School in Lincoln, Nebraska - and Olympic contenders are filing into Room 209. But these would-be Olympians aren't athletes. "Did you get the lasers?" asks science teacher James Blake. Read more » at 9:08 AM 146 comments Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Older Posts Home Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) QUEST Nebraska is a pilot multimedia series about the people behind Nebraska science and environmental issues and how their work is changing the way we live. QUEST Nebraska utilizes all of NET's media platforms, educational resources and partnerships to bring its audience the best science media in the state. Search QUEST Nebraska Blog Archive ▼ 2013 (1) ▼ January (1) Yogurt Bacteria Could One Day Prevent HIV ► 2012 (6) ► August (1) ► June (1) ► April (2) ► March (1) ► February (1) ► 2011 (20) ► December (1) ► November (2) ► October (1) ► September (4) ► August (2) ► July (8) ► June (1) ► April (1) Copyright (c) 2011 Nebraska Educational Telecommunications. Powered by Blogger ....