From deterrents to yard changes, these expert-backed tips can help make your outdoor space less appealing to crows—without putting them at risk.

In March of this year, a team of scientists—led by Emil Ruff, a Ph.D. in microbial ecology—descended into a 2.2-mile-deep mineshaft just outside of Johannesburg, South Africa. The NASA-funded expedition had an unusual objective: to research a billion-year-old brine discovered after an earthquake split a tunnel wall. That radioactive brine contains microbes, argon, phosphorus … and oxygen. Scientists call it “dark oxygen,” oxygen produced without photosynthesis. Ranjani Murali, assistant professor of microbial environmental genomics at UNLV, was on that expedition along with Sujung Lim, a postdoctoral scholar from Murali’s lab.

Don’t brush it off as just another bird. From scientific reasons to ancient spiritual symbolism, here is what that repeated visitor is really trying to tell you.

The next time you’re in one of Toledo’s 19 Metroparks, you might see a bunch of 4 feet tall plastic tubes with trees growing out of them. But that’s not litter: those plastic tubes are actually helping the trees grow.

Discovery in hamsters suggests path toward inducing hibernation in mammals that don’t do it naturally.

Two-thirds of Metroparks Toledo plant sites examined over a recent six-year period showed biodiversity gains, a new report shows.

It could be unreliable feeders, unreachable nectar, or the lack of a water feature, to name a few.

Turn your garden into a hummingbird magnet.

A pair of UNLV graduates, Sarah Galera and Sophia Lorenzana, are helping preserve the Wetlands through a tree monitoring project with Clark County. 

I’ve picked up a few tips in the restaurants and food service jobs I’ve worked at over the years. One habit that I’ve picked up from restaurant life is that any time I use a dishcloth, it’s getting tossed in the laundry.

When Sophia Lorenzana took an ornithology class at UNLV as an undergraduate student, she never imagined it would spark a love for one of the area’s most underrated natural resources: Wetlands Park.

Maybe you have ordered an at-home microbiome test and waited on a report full of unfamiliar bacteria names. Maybe you are just watching friends compare their results. Either way, the gut has become something people study rather than ignore. That attention raises a fair question about which foods and compounds genuinely help. The latest contender is one that nutritionists spent years telling you to limit.