In The News: School of Life Sciences

KSNV-TV: News 3

It’s officially an outbreak. There are more West Nile cases in Southern Nevada this year than ever before and mosquito season is far from over.

Las Vegas Sun

For generations, summer in Nevada has meant fire season. These days, it’s more accurate to call it a fire year.

KSNV-TV: News 3

The grasshopper invasion of the Las Vegas Valley is well underway.

NBC News

A grasshopper swarm in the Las Vegas Valley of Nevada has been so thick at times that the National Weather Service warned motorists it could impact visibility on area roads.

Thanh Nien

Grasshoppers are raging the Las Vegas Valley of Nevada (USA) so dense that sometimes they appear on the radar screen of the meteorological station, and it is expected that the grasshopper problem will last for several weeks.

Kompas

The "Game of Thrones" series ended last week.

Hermann Herald

Martin Schiller is the founder of Heligenics and executive director of UNLV‘s Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine.

Zócalo Public Square

At first, there was no road at all, just a series of springs where the water table breached the earth’s crust.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Your genes may hold clues to your optimal diet plan.

That’s what UNLV researcher Martin Schiller advocates with his new business, Food Genes and Me, a website that uses genetic data to predict how eating less or more of a certain food could help ward off disease.

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No fantasy world is complete without fire-breathing dragons . But if dragons were real, how could they get that kind of fiery breath?

GenK

It's not just ordinary sleep, it's a biological/natural wonder and a bear's miracle.

NBC News

Brian Hedlund and Ariel Friel collect microbes living for tens of thousands of years in the subsurface of the earth. By studying these microorganisms, they hope to gain clues about potential life on Mars and other planets.