A downturn in COVID-19 hospitalizations and cases continued for the fifth straight week in both Clark County and Nevada, with the state reporting one of the lowest case rates in the country.

Humans take a lot of pride in their brains. We like to think we are an intelligent species, and even though size isn't everything, our noggins are some of the largest nature has to offer.

Companies preparing to send employees to tech conferences should have a COVID-19 safety plan and prepare for the possibility that some workers will bring the virus back to the office.

It was a dangerous Tuesday morning for pedestrians in the Las Vegas Valley with three killed and a fourth critically injured in four separate crashes.

Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto announced $3.9 million in funding in a bid to help Southern Nevada’s economy.

Electric aircraft pioneers draw on history to win converts to their novel designs

For decades, scientists have heralded the idea that human brains have increased in size over the course of history, evolving in modern humans be much larger than that of our Neanderthal cousins. In October 2021, DeSilva et al., seemingly added more evidence to this hypothesis with a paper that concluded the human brain shrank during the transition to modern urban societies about 3,000 years ago. And while this supported previous literature, the research did establish a new timeline—marking brain decrease as late as the last Ice Age.

Anthropologists believe that brain size has remained dynamic in size. It nearly quadrupled in the six million years since Homo last shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but human brains are thought to have decreased in volume since the end of the last Ice Age.