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College of Sciences News
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Current Sciences News
Professor Edwin Oh’s 'SEFTY' program is providing a slice of life for future scientists, giving high schoolers an authentic lab experience.
Professor Marty Schiller talks about his business and how UNLV made it possible.
GeoPaths program leads to more student-centered and interactive Earth science classes.
News highlights featuring UNLV students and staff who made (refreshing) waves in the headlines.
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After 50 years at UNLV, Satish Bhatnagar finds that learning the history of mathematics — or any subject — provides a deeper understanding of the world around us.
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Two studies pair observational data with machine learning models to increase precision in distance estimates for GRBs.
Sciences In The News
Southwest Airlines is ending its unique open-seating policy after more than 50 years. The airline said its research found 80% of customers preferred assigned seating.
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UNLV medicine professor Edwin Oh had a simple question for his young students. “Do you see green cells?” If they said yes — and, happily, they all did — that meant they had successfully transfused a special protein into a small dish of human kidney cells that allowed the cells to glow green when placed under a beam of blue light emitting from a high-powered fluorescent microscope.
The question of whether Mars ever supported life has captivated the imagination of scientists and the public for decades. Central to the discovery is gaining insight into the past climate of Earth’s neighbor: was the planet warm and wet, with seas and rivers much like those found on our own planet? Or was it frigid and icy, and therefore potentially less prone to supporting life as we know it? A new study finds evidence to support the latter by identifying similarities between soils found on Mars and those of Canada’s Newfoundland, a cold subarctic climate.
The real reason airlines still board planes from front to back despite it causing huge aisle queues has been revealed. Passengers have long found boarding one of the most tiresome parts of flying - but an astrophysicist thinks there's a better way.
Local and national public-interest groups, as well as Havasupai Tribe members, delivered more than 17,000 petition signatures to Gov. Katie Hobbs today urging her to use her authority to close the Pinyon Plain uranium mine that threatens the waters of the Grand Canyon and the Havasupai Tribe.
Supermassive black holes at the hearts of active galaxies may be churning out a lot of the universe’s high-energy neutrinos.
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