News: Department of Geoscience
Researchers from the College of Sciences showcase the artistic side of science by featuring their most captivating research images.
A collection of news stories capturing the excitement of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s campus in June, July and August.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ received a nearly $700,000 National Science Foundation grant to house ‘multicollector’ device, the first of its kind in Nevada.
Nevada is the nation’s third-most seismically active state and neighbors quake-prone California, which experienced two temblors in early July felt in Las Vegas. 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ geoscientist Wanda Taylor explains why, and what we can do to prepare.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ geoscientist, student among international research team behind discovery of ancient monkey species that lived in Africa 22 million years ago.
In 2018, faculty and students collaborated with one another and international colleagues on scientific exploration that sought to help people make sense of themselves and the world around them.
Climate change researcher Matt Lachniet explains the impacts of hotter temperatures.
Scholarship fuels research that could save communities from floods.
Most kids want to be doctors, vets, police officers, or teachers when they grow up. Shaimaa Abdelhaleem had different ideas.
As geologist Peg Rees heads to retirement, the 4,000 pounds of rocks she collected go to the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center.
How a vacation in South Africa, a one-of-its-kind 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ lab, and pieces of volcanic glass smaller than a grain of salt changed a long-held view of human history.
Scientific analysis of diamond impurities - known as inclusions - reveal naturally forming ice crystals and point to water-rich regions deep below the Earth's crust.