In The News: College of Sciences
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.
While Earth's atmosphere protects us from harmful cosmic rays, other cosmic particles are passing through us every second.

From high in the hills around Las Vegas, tourist Choune Osterero gazes down at the line of chalky mineral deposits left on the rocks around Lake Mead as the level of America's largest reservoir has dropped over the last quarter of a century of drought.
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.
One of the most notable astronomical phenomena of the year will occur in the early morning of August 13th (Vietnam time), when the Moon will pass between the Earth and the Sun, creating a total solar eclipse.

Stargazers are over the moon. On August 12, the skies will be shrouded in a moon shadow due to a solar eclipse that will be visible in Europe, Canada and parts of the Northern US.

Here’s where the August 12 eclipse will be visible, what viewers can expect—and why even a partial eclipse requires proper eye protection.
As of August 5, the reservoir stood at 1,040.74 feet above sea level, just 0.16 feet (1.9 inches) above its record low of 1,040.58 feet, which was set in July 2022.

Lake Mead is inches away from dropping to a new record low as poor snowpack, years of overuse, a lack of cooperation among the seven basin states that use the Colorado River and even evaporation continue to drain the reservoir.
