In The News: College of Sciences
Scientists pieced together the history of a huge Pacific plateau and found a complicated story.
Mountains here. Mountains there. Mountains everywhere. New Las Vegas residents, especially if they’re from east of the Rockies, may not be used to seeing mountains in their front, side and rear windows. But what are the names of those prominent mountains and mountain ranges?
Associate professor of physics at UNLV, Dr. Jason Steffen, joined us with more.
More than 115 million Americans are expected to travel over the Christmas and New Year holidays — more than a 2% increase from the same time last year and the second-highest end-of-year forecast since 2000, according to AAA.
UNLV’s fall semester ended on a tragic note, but this week many students chose to come together to overcome this tragedy and preserve and celebrate their accomplishments.
Humans knew the Earth was round before the availability of satellite imagery, despite some online questioning how Hollywood could have depicted Earth as spherical before satellites existed.
Who’s in the mood for some good news on the climate front?
The Nevada state reptile faces multiple threats, mostly man-made. Concerned scientists are racing to find a solution.
Three years after a fire tore through Big Basin Redwoods State Park, once-blackened trees are showing new green growth.
Shaving mere minutes off flight times might seem trivial on paper, but it can result in huge savings for airlines.
More than 800 airport hospitality workers walked off the job this morning, demanding better wages. It’s all happening on one of the busiest and most stressful travel days of the year. Millions of people will pass through LAX this Thanksgiving weekend.
After delaying the vote last month, Henderson’s City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a controversial development on top of a 100-year-old mine near Lake Las Vegas. A handful of items on the upcoming council agenda are connected with a proposed 3,000-home development to be built over the site of the Three Kids Mine, an open-pit mine that was used to supply manganese for weapons in World War I.