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I’ve picked up a few tips in the restaurants and food service jobs I’ve worked at over the years. One habit that I’ve picked up from restaurant life is that any time I use a dishcloth, it’s getting tossed in the laundry.
Brian Hedlund
Professor, Life Sciences
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Ask people why summer is hot, and a lot of them give the same answer: Earth must be closer to the Sun.The truth runs exactly backwards from the hunch.
Jason Steffen
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
When Sophia Lorenzana took an ornithology class at UNLV as an undergraduate student, she never imagined it would spark a love for one of the area’s most underrated natural resources: Wetlands Park.
Scott Abella
Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences
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The Nevada Center for Astrophysics (Sciences) is one of many collaborators working to develop a new obeservatory which will expand the field of neutrino astronomy. The Tau Air-shower Mountain-Based Observatory (TAMBO) is the next step in being able to more fully map the high-energy neutrino sky.…
Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored a new meta-analysis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled "Divergent trait controls on soluble sugars and starch underlie global strategies of tree carbohydrate storage." This study showed that phylogeny and functional traits—…
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