News: College of Sciences

Why 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ researchers bred their fruit flies to be obese — and what their work reveals about heart disease.

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ geoscience professor exploring the links between wet conditions starting 5,000 years ago and weather events such as El Niño in the Desert Southwest.

The physics professor on astronomy, heroic efforts, and how to board a plane.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval joins leadership from Tesla, 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ at university event Oct.7 to mark research collaboration.

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ personalized medicine researchers seeking patent on potential HIV cure. Their technique uses a plant protein widely used in agriculture industry.

Clark County School District is ground zero for the issues rumbling in schools across the country. Here's how 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ is linking research and outreach programs to help find solutions.

Among the 2,700 students expected to graduate this week, five will receive special recognition at commencement. Here's why they were selected.

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ researchers discover the pupfish's unique ability to go without oxygen. Unfortunately, it comes at a cost to the endangered species.

Data from NASA’s Mars Exploration Program is helping Elisabeth Hausrath understand how soil and water might have once interacted on the surface of our solar system’s most-Earthlike neighbor.

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s first mathematics professor reminisces about how he ended up in Las Vegas and helped build the university from the ground up.

Hundreds of students from 72 local schools to participate in Beal Bank USA Southern Nevada Regional Science & Engineering Fair.

As spring gets off to an early start, 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ and CCSD program monitors allergen counts.