In The News: School of Life Sciences
The legendary Alexander Fleming, who famously discovered penicillin, once said "never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening." And the path of science often leads to just that. New 51ԹϺ research is turning the page in our understanding of harmful bacteria and how they turn on certain genes, causing disease in our bodies.
51ԹϺ is getting $5 million from the federal government as part of an effort to keep things a little bit cooler in one of the nation’s hottest cities.
51ԹϺ plans to plant about 3,000 trees in Southern Nevada over the next five years with a $5 million grant from the U.S. Forest Service.
The 51ԹϺ-led Las Vegas Urban Forest Center received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Forest Service to help counteract the growing impacts of extreme heat.
The funding is going toward the university's Las Vegas Urban Forest Center and its project, which is scheduled to start in January next year.
Although disposable storage bags are so handy, it can be wasteful to use a zip-top plastic baggie just once and then throw it away. But, in the name of being environmentally conscious, is it actually safe to wash and reuse the plastic bags?
Beekeeper Dave Sharpless went to check on one of his beehives during this June 2019 day in Henderson only to find empty, melted hives.
Spring has come and while temperatures are rising, the Las Vegas valley is seeing more pesky insects crawling and flying around.
It’s a classic science fiction trope: Astronauts on an interstellar journey are kept in sleek, refrigerated pods in a state of suspended animation. Although such pods remain purely fictional, scientists have pursued research into inducing a hibernation-like state in humans to lessen the damage caused by medical conditions such as heart attacks and stroke, and to reduce the stress and costs of future long-distance space sojourns.
Who can forget the 2019 grasshopper invasion? Grasshoppers were covering gas stations, overcoming the skies, and fast forward to today, the question that everyone may have is, “Will this be a repeat of 2019?”
Officials with the Southern Nevada Water Authority pushing a proposed bill in the Nevada Legislature say converting those systems to the sewer lines would help Las Vegas conserve and reuse more of its small share of Colorado River water.
Many Las Vegas locals have already reported seeing swarms of grasshoppers. The pallid-winged grasshopper is the most common type of grasshopper seen here in the desert according to Professor Allen Gibbs at 51ԹϺ. While they can be pesky, grasshoppers are harmless except for some plants and gardens.