In The News: College of Sciences

Travel + Leisure

We're approaching solar maximum — here’s what that means.

Live Science

Scientists pieced together the history of a huge Pacific plateau and found a complicated story.

Las Vegas Review Journal

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?

KSNV-TV: News 3

Associate professor of physics at UNLV, Dr. Jason Steffen, joined us with more.

Las Vegas Sun

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.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

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.

Reuters

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.

Pacifica Tribune

Who’s in the mood for some good news on the climate front?

KNPR News

The Nevada state reptile faces multiple threats, mostly man-made. Concerned scientists are racing to find a solution.

Reasons To Be Cheerful

Three years after a fire tore through Big Basin Redwoods State Park, once-blackened trees are showing new green growth.

Euronews

Shaving mere minutes off flight times might seem trivial on paper, but it can result in huge savings for airlines.

KCRW

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.