A lot of the time, when someone mentions the University of Nevada Las Vegas, they’re speaking of its renowned School of Hospitality, its fast-growing medical school or its Jerry Tarkanian-era men’s basketball teams. But UNLV is also one of the nation’s top research universities, awarded an R1 classification (“very high research activity”) from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Join the Weekly as we peek into the laboratories where world-changing scientific research is ongoing.

A lot of the time, when someone mentions the University of Nevada Las Vegas, they’re speaking of its renowned School of Hospitality, its fast-growing medical school or its Jerry Tarkanian-era men’s basketball teams. But UNLV is also one of the nation’s top research universities, awarded an R1 classification (“very high research activity”) from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Join the Weekly as we peek into the laboratories where world-changing scientific research is ongoing.

The quest for the true value of the Hubble constant (H0) tension which gives a measure of the current expansion of the Universe is still on. The fervent debate today is about the discrepancy between the H0 values obtained from type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and from the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB), a radiation emitted from the early Universe close to its origin.

A once-in-a-civilization burst of gamma rays set off an observing spree by more than 160 telescopes. It’s forcing scientists to revisit long-held theories — and it’s not done yet.

Using the Chinese Fast radio telescope, an international group of astronomers has discovered a quasi-periodic wobble in the radio band in the galactic microquasar Grs 1915+105. The signal has an approximate period of 0.2 seconds and does not seem to occur all the time. It could be caused by a misalignment between the black hole's axis of rotation and its accretion disk

More than three years after April 28, 2020, an international team of scientists reports the outcome of the observations made with the Chinese Fast radio telescope of the first galactic fast radio burst, reporting that they have discovered a radio pulsar phase of the magnetar that emitted it . Flashes and pulses, therefore, with different characteristics but originating from the same object, the magnetar.

More than 15 years after the discovery of fast radio bursts (FRBs) – millisecond-long, deep-space cosmic explosions of electromagnetic radiation – astronomers worldwide have been combing the universe to uncover clues about how and why they form.

Black holes are known to be highly puzzling objects with features that sound like they come directly from a sci-fi movie.

Black holes are the most mysterious objects in the universe, with features that sound like they come straight from a sci-fi movie.

A spectacular new image released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) gives us clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers have detected large dusty clumps, close to a young star, that could collapse to create giant planets.

A spectacular image of a star system 5,000 light-years from Earth could explain how giant planets are born.

Re “Titan submersible implosion: another safety lesson learned through tragedy” (Editorial, June 24): Despite our ability to adapt and our incredible intelligence, humans can’t live in the extreme conditions of the deep ocean. The use of an experimental submersible that was not tested with the full rigor necessary to operate it as a commercial vessel should never have been allowed.