In The News: College of Sciences
UNLV’s fall semester ended on a tragic note, but this week many students chose to come together to overcome this tragedy and preserve and celebrate their accomplishments.
Humans knew the Earth was round before the availability of satellite imagery, despite some online questioning how Hollywood could have depicted Earth as spherical before satellites existed.
Who’s in the mood for some good news on the climate front?
The Nevada state reptile faces multiple threats, mostly man-made. Concerned scientists are racing to find a solution.
Three years after a fire tore through Big Basin Redwoods State Park, once-blackened trees are showing new green growth.
Shaving mere minutes off flight times might seem trivial on paper, but it can result in huge savings for airlines.
More than 800 airport hospitality workers walked off the job this morning, demanding better wages. It’s all happening on one of the busiest and most stressful travel days of the year. Millions of people will pass through LAX this Thanksgiving weekend.
More than three years after a wildfire devastated Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the massive redwood trees in California’s oldest state park continue to recover with surprising speed. But some wildlife species, particularly salmon and steelhead trout in the park’s streams, and some types of birds, are still struggling and could take many years to bounce back.
After delaying the vote last month, Henderson’s City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a controversial development on top of a 100-year-old mine near Lake Las Vegas. A handful of items on the upcoming council agenda are connected with a proposed 3,000-home development to be built over the site of the Three Kids Mine, an open-pit mine that was used to supply manganese for weapons in World War I.
The Silver State also has “dozens of active faults,” an article about Nevada’s earthquake risks on UNLV’s website states.
One of the major US airlines is changing its boarding process to make it faster. But it could be even faster
The new gallery contains a world of wildlife wonders showcasing the diverse ecosystems that blanket our planet and how daily life is intricately connected to biomes.
