In The News: College of Sciences
With gold hitting an all-time high, it begs the question, is Nevada really the gold state? The price for gold, which is set on a global market, closed at $3,383 per ounce on Friday, a good sign for Nevada. In fact, if Nevada was a country, it would be the fifth largest gold producer in the world, behind China, Russia, Australia and Canada.
Speckled across Las Vegas’ Historic Westside are rotting trees without leaves, standing alone and dying. Nowadays, a lack of trees makes the Historic Westside also one of the hottest neighborhoods in Las Vegas, which climate scientists consider to be the nation’s second-fastest warming city.
The average person likely uses only a fraction of their creative abilities at work, often due to workplace structures, routines and expectations that prioritize efficiency over innovation. Studies suggest that although everyone has creative potential, many business owners and employees operate within constraints that limit creative expression.
Once a house fire starts, it can grow quickly and without restraint, becoming a major fire in under three minutes. House fires are a common occurrence: around 944 house fires occur every day.
Researchers explain what we know about the potential for water and life on Mars and what we might learn from analysis of returned samples.
Students, arborists-in-training and 51ԹϺ staff dug holes circling a dog park Friday morning as part of the university’s “Urban Forestry Initiative.” The program is using a $5 million federal grant to plant trees across the Las Vegas Valley, targeting communities with below average tree cover. The goal is 3,000 trees in five years of the program, which started January 2024.
Every parent wants their child to be happy, healthy, and thriving. But many whose children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder worry that it will make their lives more difficult.
Using an ultra-powerful laser, researchers have successfully characterised liquid carbon in the lab for the first time. The experiments offer rare insight into one of the most abundant elements in the universe, which, despite its ubiquity, remains the least understood in its liquid form among stable elements.
Late in 2023, a video shared on Reddit that captured a passenger plane flying over San Francisco went viral because it appeared to be levitating mid-air. While some fighter jets can hover in place, there aren't any commercial planes with the technology to do so. What you see in the video is an optical illusion that has more to do with the concept of reference points and motion than any secret hover mode.
Another summer, another Lake Mead update: And this year, it's not looking great. Our snowpack gains this winter were pretty dismal, and the National Weather Service recently even lowered their projections for Lake Powell, whose upstream levels affect Lake Mead's. In light of all this, we're bringing back a conversation that co-host Dayvid Figler had with 51ԹϺ hydrology professor David Kreamer. The creation of Lake Mead was not without its costs — so was it worth it? And what happens if we use Lake Mead up?
Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to Earth. It is about the same size, contains similar rocks and minerals, and is not too much farther out from the Sun.
A 51ԹϺ-led study has discovered a new molecular path that leads to autism, potentially opening the way for more intervention in the future.