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The latest national climate assessment captures the future impacts of a warming planet more completely than reports that have come before it, 51ԹϺ geology professor Matt Lachniet says.
How do you make a great park even better? They carefully wrestle with that conundrum regularly at Oak Openings, a precious and rare ecosystem that is part of a large region of oak savanna that the Nature Conservancy once called one of the 200 “Last Great Places on Earth.”
Las Vegas may no longer be just the entertainment capital of the world.
Jeremy Aguero, principal analyst for Las Vegas-based Applied Analysis, said the city is well on its way to becoming the sports and entertainment capital of the world, with the introduction of professional sports teams like the Vegas Golden Knights and, eventually, the Raiders.
In recent Evolution News articles (Bechly 2017a, 2017b, 2017c, 2018), I have commented on paleoanthropological discoveries that overturned the cherished out-of-Africa scenario. Now, the rewriting of the story of human evolution continues with undampened enthusiasm. In a special report series, “Rewriting human evolution,” the journal New Scientist featured an article “Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten” (Barras 2017) reviewing a lot of this modern research. This summer the article “Asia’s mysterious role in the early origins of humanity” (Douglas 2018a) was appropriately added to the series, because indeed many of the revolutionary new discoveries were made in China and the Indian subcontinent.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ School of Community Health Sciences has been designated the first accredited school of public health in Nevada by the Council of Education for Public Health (CEHP).
Your Krispy Kreme Doughnuts experience may not have been quite like Marc-Andre Fleury's, but it was probably just as exciting.
When voters agreed to allow casinos into Ohio in 2009, advocates projected that the four locations would generate $1.9 billion in revenue before taxes.
When you’re out hiking, you never know what you might see. You could cross paths with lizards, tarantulas or maybe even something bigger like a javelina. More likely, you’ll also come across the tracks of these critters.
