In The News: College of Sciences
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ researchers are part of a team that will receive almost three million dollars of federal funding for a project focused on the workforce for nuclear energy.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ researchers are part of a team that will receive nearly $3 million in federal funding for a project focusing on the nuclear energy workforce.
Greenhouse gas emissions from global mining and resource extraction result in up to £2.5tn ($3tn) in damages worldwide every year, according to a new study.
Scientists are just starting to uncover the vast diversity of microbes out there. The only problem? No one can agree on how to name them.
More human remains were discovered at Lake Mead at the weekend, less than a week after a barrel containing a possible murder victim was discovered at the body of water located near Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ambitions to start a uranium industry on American soil are being reawakened - but so are fears of the pollution the industry is bringing.
If imports end because of the war, American companies may look to increase domestic mining, which has a toxic history on Indigenous lands.
A mammoth discovered several years ago 30 miles northwest of Pahrump provides the first-known proof of Ice Age animals in the Amargosa Valley area.
Las Vegas-based MP Materials announced Thursday that it broke ground on a 200,000-square-foot rare earth magnetics manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas — part of the firm’s larger plan to invest $700 million over the next two years into creating a full rare earth supply chain.
Biology student Citlally Lopez wants to help medical patients every step of the way.
"If you can't grow it, you have to mine it" goes the miner's credo. The extraction of minerals, metals and fuels from the ground is one of humankind's oldest industries. And our appetite for it is growing.
Robot bees could one day help pollinate crops amid rising concerns about a worldwide decline in insect populations that has the potential to wreak havoc on food supplies.
