Diamond is famously known as the hardest mineral on Earth. But researchers have been pursuing an unusual variant of it — known as hexagonal diamond — that might be even harder.

Economists say the rising price of oil due to military conflict in Iran has impacts beyond driving up the cost of fuel.

The data can be viewed on the Clark County School District Police website, which compiles data from all law enforcement agencies. The data tracks students going to or from school, Monday through Friday, during the hours of 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Out of 285 students struck by cars this year, 131 incidents involved students on e-devices. That’s compared to only 9 recorded incidents involving e-devices last year.

Federal crash statistics show that distracted driving was a factor in about eight percent of all fatal crashes nationwide in recent years.

When neuroscientists began studying consciousness in the early 1990s, they sought to explain how and why three pounds of spongy grey matter could generate a subjective point of view—assuming that the brain is the source of our felt reality. Pollan takes us to the cutting edge of the field, where scientists are entertaining more radical (and less materialist) theories of consciousness. He introduces us to “plant neurobiologists” searching for the first flicker of consciousness in plants; scientists striving to engineer feelings into AI, and psychologists and novelists seeking to capture the felt experience of our slippery stream of consciousness.

Seemingly overnight, lawyers trained in immigration law have found themselves doubling as federal litigators as district courts became the de facto battleground in detention defense during the second Trump administration.

A stat sheet published by the University of Nevada Las Vegas Criminal Justice Department reveals that 92 percent of female festival attendees have experienced sexual harassment.

Heightened tensions tied to the conflict in the Middle East, along with a recent shooting in Austin that left at least two people dead last weekend, have prompted renewed warnings from former FBI officials about the risk of terrorism and the importance of reporting suspicious behavior.

As concerns grow over the United States involvement in Iran, so have the concerns of how the turmoil may impact local economies.