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For decades, diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has required access to specialist memory clinics, neuroimaging or invasive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) testing. That paradigm is starting to shift. In 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the first blood-based biomarker tests intended to aid the assessment of AD.
For more than a century, psychologists thought that the infant experience was, as the psychologist and philosopher William James famously put it, a “blooming, buzzing confusion.” But new research suggests babies are born with a surprisingly sophisticated neurological toolkit that can organize the visual world into categories and pick out the beat in a song.
Between the Super Bowl, the Olympics, and March Madness, we’re heading into a busy time in the sports betting world. We explore the rise of prediction markets, the efforts to combat problem gambling, and recent scandals in the industry with our panel of experts.
A new study recently released is for the "night owls" and shows the impacts staying up late can have on your heart. In this large study, research showed people who are more active late at night have poorer heart health than the average person. But health experts say, this is fixable! On ARC Las Vegas we talked with Dr. Marc Kahn with the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV.
Over the past couple of years, the popularity of GLP-1 receptor agonists, which are a class of typically injectable medications that simulate the glucagon-like peptide-1 hormone, to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, has gained enormous popularity.
UNLV in May launched the Artificial Intelligence Research Hub (AiRHub) to tackle issues involving the pros and cons of AI in gaming, and researchers expect to deliver papers this year on whether regulatory guardrails should be implemented to prevent hurting consumers who play in the state’s casinos and employees who work there.
UNLV in May launched the Artificial Intelligence Research Hub (AiRHub) to tackle issues involving the pros and cons of AI in gaming, and researchers expect to deliver papers this year on whether regulatory guardrails should be implemented to prevent hurting consumers who play in the state’s casinos and employees who work there.
On a fall night in 1982, mob figure Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal was almost blown up outside a Tony Roma’s in Las Vegas – a harrowing attack portrayed in the opening scene of “Casino.”
More than 40 years after the infamous car bombing, the Tony Roma’s building is home to a sex-toy shop, and a neighboring former Marie Callender’s is boarded-up. Now the plaza itself where Rosenthal was nearly killed in a suspected mob hit has been sold.