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Super-Earths might have cleaned the inner regions of the solar system and then been swallowed by the sun.

This Life Sciences professor is all about communities — from the bacterial ones she studies (yuck) to the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ community she is pleased to have joined.

An internationally recognized plant ecologist, Walker becomes the second consecutive 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ professor to win the Nevada Regents' Researcher Award.

Geoscience professor Elisabeth (Libby) Hausrath honored for early career accomplishments; research focuses on geochemistry, chemical interactions and soil-forming processes on Mars.

A nearly native Las Vegan, Nemanja Novakovic had planned to leave Nevada when it came time for college. But that was before he discovered his academic dreams could be fulfilled at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ.

Radiochemistry program teaming with universities, national labs for research and development in nuclear science and security; five-year grant funded by U.S. Department of Energy.

Our high-tech marvels demand rare earth metals and oxides. 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ researchers are working to make extracting them less toxic and more efficient.

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ paleontologists recover mammoth fossils northwest of Las Vegas.

Three 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ scientists will present their work during an Alzheimer's research symposium Nov. 13 on campus.