In The News: College of Sciences
The drought in the southwestern U.S. isn’t new - it’s actually a couple of decades old now.
Laser pincers that could fetch antimatter, a squishy insulator that can shapeshift into a conductor, and a 3D map of a tiny chunk of a mouse’s brain could help make AI smarter. This week’s coolest things go big by going small.
CRISPR reached a big milestone this year by treating a disease inside the body—here's what's next for the technology.
A surprisingly short gamma-ray burst has astronomers rethinking what triggers these celestial cataclysms.
Remarkable things happen when a “squishy” compound of manganese and sulfide (MnS2) is compressed in a diamond anvil, researchers report.
Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, released the following statement applauding the National Science Foundation (NSF) for awarding a grant totaling $349,710 to the University of Nevada Las Vegas to increase STEM education opportunities for underrepresented students in geoscience – the study of Earth.
Astronomers observe long bursts in association with the demise of massive stars.
A fizzled example of a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion known in the universe, suggests these outbursts may not always work the way that scientists thought, and that versions of these flares can be surprisingly brief, researchers say.
As a compound of manganese sulfide is compressed in a diamond anvil cell, it undergoes dramatic transitions.
Lasting only about a second, it turned out to be one of the record books – the shortest gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the death of a massive star ever seen.
NASA says the gamma-ray burst (GRB) had been racing toward Earth for “nearly half the present age” of the universe as the star that loosed it in the direction of our home planet is billions of light-years away.
A group of astronomers, including from India, have detected a very short, powerful burst of high-energy radiation that lasted for about a second.