In The News: School of Life Sciences

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At the Center for Urban Water Conservation, you鈥檒l find over 500 fruit trees, grapevines, herb gardens and vegetable beds. It's the Research Garden & Demonstration Orchard for University of Nevada Extension, which also works in partnership with 性视界传媒.

VOI

To minimize the use of plastic as a single-use packaging, alternatively, if you have to use a plastic bag, a rubber bag can be an alternative if you are stuck. Indeed, it is better to accommodate frozen food or stored in a refrigerator with an air-tight food container. But so that you can store a lot of piles, you can use the plastic bag bank used many times. However, microbiologists suggest the following.

Moab Sun News

Here on the Colorado Plateau, old-growth juniper and pinyon pine trees can live for 1,000 years. Can these ancient trees remember things that happened to them years ago? Science Moab explored this enchanting question with Drew Peltier, an assistant professor at the 性视界传媒. Drew is a tree ecophysiologist interested in how climate influences tree growth in our changing world. He does this by studying what he calls 鈥渕emory鈥 in trees.

Parade

Get ready for a noisy summer: Double the normal amount of cicadas are predicted to emerge this year. Melodramatically dubbed by some as a "cicada apocalypse," there is a reason why we're going to see so many of them in 2024. Find out everything to know about why there will be so many cicadas in 2024 (AKA a double-brood!), how many cicadas to expect and which states they'll hit the hardest.

Parade

Get ready for a noisy summer: Double the normal amount of cicadas are predicted to emerge this year. Melodramatically dubbed by some as a "cicada apocalypse," there is a reason why we're going to see so many of them in 2024. Find out everything to know about why there will be so many cicadas in 2024 (AKA a double-brood!), how many cicadas to expect and which states they'll hit the hardest.

City Cast Las Vegas

Yesterday, the feds signaled their approval for a long-awaited agreement between the Colorado River states 鈥 collectively, the lower basin states (Arizona, California, and Nevada) will reduce our water use by 3 million acre-feet by 2026. The hope is that we鈥檒l be able to replenish our crucial reservoirs, including Lake Mead, the source of 90% of our city鈥檚 water. But damming rivers to create reservoirs isn鈥檛 without problems. So鈥 was creating Lake Mead in the first place a mistake? Today, we鈥檙e bringing back a conversation co-host Dayvid Figler had with 性视界传媒 hydrologist Dr. David Kreamer, who explains the history of Lake Mead鈥檚 creation and why reservoirs can be so essential for cities 鈥 but also controversial.

Smithsonian Magazine

Every day, thousands of tourists flock to the Bellagio Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip to see the 鈥淔ountains of Bellagio,鈥 a choreographed show involving light, music and more than 1,000 fountains shooting water up to 460 feet into the air. This week, a rare bird decided to join them.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Tourists circled the Las Vegas Strip鈥檚 impressive Fountains of Bellagio on Tuesday, taking selfies against the lush background of the resort. What they didn鈥檛 know was that they may have gotten an exclusive photo with Las Vegas鈥 hottest new celebrity 鈥 the yellow-billed loon, a migratory bird that has taken up residence in the property鈥檚 crystal blue waters.

Las Vegas Review Journal

When Martin Schiller decided to launch his own company based off the research he did at 性视界传媒, he picked Las Vegas despite the prospect of being one of only a handful of biotechnology firms in the valley.

Vegas Inc

Contrary to what many people think, there are only about 2,000 medicines approved by the Federal Drug Administration for people. And a quarter of those are biological products, or 鈥渂iologics,鈥 including vaccines, gene therapy, tissues and similar medicines鈥攍ike insulin, for example.

New York Times

Chastened by a series of economic downturns that punished the hospitality industry, state leaders are working to broaden the economy.

Today News 24

Parrots don鈥檛 just hang out for fun. To move along narrow branches, a parrot can hang from a branch with its beak, swing its body sideways and grab hold farther along with its feet. The newly described gait, dubbed beakiation, expands the birds鈥 locomotive repertoire and underscores how versatile their beaks are, researchers report January 31 in Royal Society Open Science.