In The News: College of Sciences

Las Vegas Review Journal

Despite being located in the hot and dry Mojave Desert, Nevada is home to 52 fish species found nowhere else in the world.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Tom Gordon of Carson City didn’t expect his backyard to become an excavation site when he starting planting trees this summer, but that’s what happened after he found what looked like an animal graveyard.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Tom Gordon of Carson City didn’t expect his backyard to become an excavation site when he starting planting trees this summer, but that’s what happened after he found what looked like an animal graveyard.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Steve Rowland, paleontologist and professor of geology at UNLV, discusses the Ice Age fossils recently extracted from private property in Carson City, at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum in Las Vegas.

Newswise

A meme is circulating on the Internet comparing the statement “once COVID-19 is over” to the wishful possibility of winning the lottery.

detikinet

United States authorities are trying to eradicate Asian giant wasps , which are often dubbed killer wasps . However, the wasp which was first reported to appear there at the end of 2019 is feared to spread throughout the country and become a permanent species.

Las Vegas Review Journal

In response to your July 27 story, “New study may predict ‘worst case’ climate scenario for Nevada’”: I read this report with alarm. Every disaster movie starts with a scientific warning being ignored, and we ignore this study at our peril. Like ignoring the early coronavirus warnings, not following advice from climate scientists creates disasters, too.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

Meet the UNLV scientist and professor who's literally doing some groundbreaking work on Mars with NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Newsweek

Asian giant hornets have the potential to spread across the United States and establish a permanent presence in the country, experts have told Newsweek.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

If the Mars Perseverance Rover was lifting off from Cape Canaveral at almost any other time, ҳ| 鶹ýӳ geochemistry and astrobiology professor Elisabeth “Libby” Hausrath would have had a front-row seat.

U.S. News & World Report

If the Mars Perseverance Rover was lifting off from Cape Canaveral at almost any other time, ҳ| 鶹ýӳ geochemistry and astrobiology professor Elisabeth “Libby” Hausrath would have had a front-row seat.

Oilprice.com

In the latest round of feuding between the world’s leading economies, China has vowed to retaliate after the United States ordered its consulate in Houston shut within 72 hours. Although the latest move by Washington is being viewed as an attempt by President Trump’s campaign strategists to deflect attention for his failure to deal decisively with the Covid-19 pandemic, it could quickly escalate into another ugly tit-for-tat trade war. As trade and political tensions between Washington and Beijing flare up, the specter of China using rare earth minerals as a ‘nuclear option’ has once again resurfaced.