In The News: College of Liberal Arts
When Karen Harry first saw the artifacts, she snorted and shook her head. She simply did not believe that they were ancient cooking pots—everything about them looked wrong. Harry, a ceramics archaeologist at the ÐÔÊӽ紫ý, works mostly in the desert Southwest of the United States, where Native Americans traditionally made some of the most elegant pottery in the world. But one day in 2003, a colleague at ÐÔÊӽ紫ý, Liam Frink, returned from a trip to western Alaska, where he had been excavating sites associated with the Thule people, the ancestors of the modern-day Inuit. Frink showed her the remains of some supposed cooking pots he had collected there. The pieces looked more like chunks of scorched dirt than typical potsherds—blackened and crumbling, like nothing Harry had ever seen.
In mid-August, the science journal Nature published ÐÔÊӽ紫ý research about a newly discovered species of human ancestors. A group of scientists traveled to Ethiopia, where they found 13 teeth fossils. Some of them belonged to the genus Homo — yes, the same genus modern humans belong to. But they also found a set of teeth that belonged to a new species of the genus Australopithecus, indicating that both species were present in Africa at the same time a little over 2 million years ago. 
The appearance of the genus Homo is close to the Plio-Pleistocene boundary, reflected by fossils reported recently by Brian Villmoare and his colleagues and well dated at about 2.8 million years ago. The origin of Homo may relate to changes in temperature and associated changes in habitat, as recognised five decades ago by South African palaeontologists Elisabeth Vrba and Bob Brain, although they emphasised a date of 2.5 million years ago.
A charter provision allows the city’s demographer to use internal figures that factor in the area’s rapid growth — resulting in seven changes in 15 years.
Buffalo Bill's opened in May 1994 and opened a second tower in 1995. It was a hot spot early on and even served as a movie backdrop just three years after it opened.
Two decades ago, it would’ve been foolhardy to suggest the testosterone-infused confines of athletics, especially football, were a place where being transparent served a benefit. But now, every NFL team has a sports psychologist. They help with anything including athlete focus, ability to channel aggression into motivation and, on the unfathomable occasion a player or team loses, the ability to turn failure into a cathartic current.
Researchers have discovered a new species of human ancestor that existed alongside Homo sapiens.
There is no trace of that enclave today, but a recently installed historic marker now commemorates the site of Reno’s lost Chinatown. For generations, it was a place of hard work, hope, celebrations—and despair.
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo did not attend the first press conference held Wednesday to discuss a ransomware attack that crippled state government operations this week.
The Metal Gear video game series is known for its innovations in game design, as well as stories that confront heavy philosophical themes — like the relationship between people and technology.
School is in session, and going back to school may look different for older adults looking to get their degree for the first time.
In the 1980s, David Morris was really struggling. He was growing up in an affluent suburb of San Diego, and went to a high school with a social hierarchy that felt tough to navigate. His parents were divorced, and he felt himself going off the rails