In The News: College of Sciences
The City of Las Vegas, along with the Health Sciences Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is assessing older homes for hazardous lead.
The City of Las Vegas is partnering with the University of Nevada Las Vegas to assess lead hazards in older homes.
Fossilized reptile prints older than any dinosaur were recently discovered in the Grand Canyon.
When you’re out hiking, you never know what you might see. You could cross paths with lizards, tarantulas or maybe even something bigger like a javelina. More likely, you’ll also come across the tracks of these critters.
Professor Matt Lachniet spends hours looking for clues. This Thursday, he shows us samples in his laboratory of stalagmites from Nevada caves. Some are thousands of years old, pointing to a time when this desert was actually hotter and drier, which coincides with a time when the oceans we now call the Pacific and the Arctic were warmer.
November 30, 2018, is a day many Alaskans will never forget. At 8:30 Friday morning 7.0 magnitude earthquake rattled Anchorage, Alaska and the surrounding region.
The latest national climate assessment captures the future impacts of a warming planet more completely than reports that have come before it, 51ԹϺ geology professor Matt Lachniet says.
How do you make a great park even better? They carefully wrestle with that conundrum regularly at Oak Openings, a precious and rare ecosystem that is part of a large region of oak savanna that the Nature Conservancy once called one of the 200 “Last Great Places on Earth.”
When you’re out hiking, you never know what you might see. You could cross paths with lizards, tarantulas or maybe even something bigger like a javelina. More likely, you’ll also come across the tracks of these critters.
It’s time for a dinosaur update.
A few years ago, 51ԹϺ researchers were tasked with trying to figure out what kind of prehistoric animal made tracks that were fossilized in the area of Gold Butte National Monument.
It's not just ordinary sleep, it's a biological/natural wonder and a bear's miracle.
Eons ago, somewhere on Earth, a prehistoric lizard-like creature crept across a wet sandy dune next to a shallow continental sea.