You dry pots with it, wipe your hands on it, and use it to swab the counter, but when you’re done—if you’re like me—you probably hang your trusty kitchen towel right back on the oven or dishwasher door handle. And this cycle repeats for days, weeks, maybe even months with a single dish rag. And yet, we all know that the kitchen is the perfect breeding ground for all sorts of potentially harmful germs. The dish towel, unfortunately, is not immune to this.

Feeding pigeons birdseed in the park can be fun, but having these birds settle into your yard may be less appealing. For starters, their droppings contain uric acid, which can damage cars, roofs, and other surfaces over time. And because pigeons are non-migratory and tend to stay in one area year-round, they may repeatedly feed on garden seeds and seedlings. For bird lovers, the cooing and pretty color may be a boon. But if you prefer to keep these birds out of your garden and yard, we have expert-backed strategies to help.

That level of regeneration may be out of the question for humans right now, but at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), one lab team is researching the possibility of animal eye regeneration, and how that might impact human eyecare.

Nearly every one of Big Basin's old-growth redwoods survived the wildfire. As University of Nevada, Las Vegas biologist Drew Peltier observed in 2023, just three years after the blaze, "coastal redwoods are supremely fire-adapted … and they seem to be recovering."

A 2018 study from UNLV and the local nonprofit Tortoise Group estimated that more than 150,000 desert tortoises are being kept as pets throughout the Valley. Backyard breeding is a major driver of this overpopulation problem, and there simply aren’t enough people to house all of them. Ill-suited for the wild, roughly 1,000 of these captive creatures are displaced or put up for adoption annually.

Gardening and bird watching often go hand-in-hand with the feathered visitors bringing joy to many a British home, but experts say there are six things to avoid if you want to attract more avians.

Foxes are vital to ecosystems, helping reduce rodent and rabbit populations. However, they can also dig holes in yards, get into trash, tear up fencing, and steal fruits and vegetables from gardens. While they certainly are important, you may not want them in your yard all the time. Fortunately, there are ways to naturally and humanely deter them—here, we spoke with experts about a few go-to methods.

Since mid-November, bird enthusiast Skye Marsh of Las Vegas had been hoping to get the call she received Wednesday afternoon. The lost toucan, appropriately named Sam, had been found.

Birding experts say your outdoor space could be missing several key elements.

Las Vegas is not a good environment for a toucan to be in the wild with its too-hot summers and cold winters, said Donald Price, a professor and biologist at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas who studies how winged animal species adapt to different environments.

Rising temperatures, diminished rainfall and steadily increasing usage have taken a serious toll on the Colorado River and the water it contains. Some question whether the Las Vegas Valley will have enough water to last into the future.

A trio of Nevada professors is working with NASA to investigate what drives life deep underground, hoping to create a better understanding of how ecosystems can thrive miles beneath the surface of Earth— and potentially on other planets.