In The News: College of Sciences

Tasting Table

Order a bourbon Neat at your local bar and you'll probably get a shot served straight up in a rocks glass. If you happen to be sampling the wares at a bourbon-centric venue though, you may find yourself sipping from a glass that looks more like a mini-vase than barware. If so, what you have in your hand is the ultimate tasting glass; a finely tuned vessel crafted to reveal even the most subtle nuances of bourbon. It's called Neat, an acronym for naturally engineered aroma technology. The prototype for the specially engineered barware was created by accident in 2002. It all came about because its inventor forgot to run his dishwasher.

Scientific American

These boarding methods are more efficient, but they come at a cost

51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp Weekly

Have you ever pondered how Amazonian creatures conquer the relentless annual rainfall? Are you curious about the female bison’s spring escapade with her calves in the North American Prairie? Or perhaps you’ve always secretly wanted to measure yourself against a taxidermied polar bear, wondering who stands taller?

Daily Mail

Called the Melanesian Border Plateau, a team of international researchers determined the more than 85,00-square-mile structure was created when dinosaurs ruled the Earth 145 to 66 million years ago and is still growing to this day. Researchers used seismic data, rock samples and computer models to identify four periods of volcanic eruptions deep beneath the surface that started 100 million years ago.

IFL Science

The Melanesian Border Plateau was formed in four separate stages, which is pretty damn unusual.

Travel + Leisure

We're approaching solar maximum — here’s what that means.

Live Science

Scientists pieced together the history of a huge Pacific plateau and found a complicated story.

51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp Review Journal

Mountains here. Mountains there. Mountains everywhere. New 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp residents, especially if they’re from east of the Rockies, may not be used to seeing mountains in their front, side and rear windows. But what are the names of those prominent mountains and mountain ranges?

KSNV-TV: News 3

Associate professor of physics at 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó, Dr. Jason Steffen, joined us with more.

51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp Sun

More than 115 million Americans are expected to travel over the Christmas and New Year holidays — more than a 2% increase from the same time last year and the second-highest end-of-year forecast since 2000, according to AAA.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó’s fall semester ended on a tragic note, but this week many students chose to come together to overcome this tragedy and preserve and celebrate their accomplishments.

Reuters

Humans knew the Earth was round before the availability of satellite imagery, despite some online questioning how Hollywood could have depicted Earth as spherical before satellites existed.