In The News: College of Sciences
Las Vegas locals began a project in the 1990s to protect a geological marvel at the edge of town. They made educational signs and were joined by politicians including late Sen. Harry Reid and then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, but the area was vandalized soon after.
NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to sit on the tip of a needle.
New research and samples released today by NASA and 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ show some early results of a years long mission dedicated to determining whether the planet Mars ever supported life.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ recently released a report with findings on the first ever handpicked samples from Mars.
The American Southwest is running dry—literally. Lake Mead, the lifeline of Las Vegas, is shrinking at an alarming rate, and the city that defied nature is now facing one of its toughest challenges yet. But in true Vegas fashion, this city of reinvention is fighting back. From pioneering water conservation efforts to groundbreaking innovations like WAVR, a system that harvests water straight from the air, scientists and engineers are racing against time to secure the region’s future. Meanwhile, researchers are turning to an unlikely hero—cacti—as a potential solution for drought-resistant agriculture and even biofuel.
In the early 1600s, Galileo Galilee trained a telescope of his own making on Jupiter and spotted its four largest moons. Four centuries later, scientists are still seeking to understand exactly how those moons formed billions of years ago from a swirling disk of gas, dust, and ice that once surrounded the infant planet. Now, a new computer simulation suggests shadows cast by the inner region of that circumplanetary disk (CPD) may have created cold spots in the wispier outer region, creating the physical conditions needed for those materials to congeal into the moons Galileo spotted.
Modern physics assumes a universe with more than four dimensions. This also seems to be indicated by studies in medicine, perinatal psychology and physics involving people at the time of death and after near-death experiences.
A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return from Mars. We checked in with the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ astrobiologist leading the specimen selection team for intel on what the samples so far reveal.
NASA's Perseverance rover has successfully collected its first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples, marking a historic step in Martian exploration. A new study highlights these early sample returns and their implications for understanding Mars' past.
In the search for extraterrestrial life, few things are more valuable than a scoop of dirt, provided it’s from the right place. NASA’s Perseverance rover has now collected such samples from Mars’ Jezero Crater, a location specifically chosen for its potential to reveal whether the Red Planet once harbored life, according to a new international study.
Two days of record high temperatures could trigger an early response from Mother Nature.
It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our asteroid-sleuthing telescopes are working.
