The Mirage will open the new year by shutting down totally from Mondays through Thursdays, MGM Resorts International announced Monday.

Hearing that an already dangerously contagious virus—has mutated into an even more contagious version is sending shockwaves across the world.

As a researcher studying magmatic rocks, UNLV geoscience professor Arya Udry has had to rely on meteorites catapulting through the solar system and surviving their descent through Earth’s atmosphere to make her work possible.

It was a down-in-the-mud presidential campaign, but the dirtiest part comes on Inauguration Day.

A UNLV scientist will help NASA with its Mars mission by studying rocks collected from the red planet.

Remember Cousin Eddie — Randy Quaid’s lovable buffoon in National Lampoon’s Vacation series?

The day I wrote this, I woke up with soreness in my right arm, having been an early recipient of the newly approved Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Development of the vaccine in less than a year from the first reported case of COVID-19 in the United States is a testament to our ability to mobilize resources in times of crisis and to the hard work and ingenuity of the global scientific community.

Kenya Young paced in the back parking lot of Valley Hospital Medical Center.