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Nevada has a history of periodically locking into centuries-long droughts, new research led by the University of Nevada, Reno shows. People th…
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NWII has a goal to educate and prepare the next generation of water professionals.
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U.N. researchers say the likelihood of catastrophic wildfires globally could increase by more than 50% by the turn of the century.
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New daily cases of COVID-19 in Washoe County have more than doubled in the last week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the …
Nevada university regents have hired a university administrator and African American families researcher from Detroit as the new president at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot.
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Early-stage testing showed the first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems the way scientists had hoped.
Scientists are beginning a new study to tell if the blood plasma of COVID-19 survivors might help prevent infection in the first place.
Many laid-off workers who lost health insurance in the coronavirus shutdown soon face the first deadlines to qualify for fallback coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
British researchers testing an experimental vaccine against the new coronavirus are moving into advanced studies and aim to immunize more than 10,000 people to determine if the shot works.