Around 1,000 private aircraft are expected at Las Vegas airports for the Super Bowl. It matters for climate change, and maybe for Taylor Swift, too.

Las Vegas's so-called "fun economy" is worth an astonishing $13.7 trillion when accounting for tourism, sports, and entertainment revenue streams, according to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' Zero Labs. This dwarfs the size of major sectors like healthcare, with Las Vegas' leisure and hospitality ecosystem estimated to be nearly 9 times larger than Big Pharma. These figures come as Nevada's Sin City preps to accommodate visiting football fans for the Super Bowl this Sunday, February 11.

Haters may have had enough of the Kansas City Chiefs' tandem of Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes. But their star, and that of their most famous fan, Taylor Swift, is still rising.

The UNLV football program didn’t expect to be front and center this week, as the biggest spectacle in American sports — the Super Bowl — descended on Las Vegas. But that was the situation on Monday, when negative reports about the on-campus facilities and practice fields had the Scarlet and Gray taking a beating from all angles. By the middle of the week, the mini-controversy had dissipated, with rave reviews replacing the griping, but it was a bumpy couple of days for UNLV.

Nevada held a Republican presidential primary Tuesday. On Thursday, the state GOP will host Republican presidential caucuses — with a different set of candidates competing. Confusing? Yes. Here’s how we got there and what actually matters.

For decades it has been an open question in the ubiquitin research field how proteins are labeled as being defective or unneeded. In a recent study Brenda Schulman, Director at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry, and Gary Kleiger, Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at University of Las Vegas Nevada, together with their teams were able to visualize this precise mechanism, catalyzed by the Cullin-RING Ligase E3s, for the first time.

Nevada's Republican voters have overwhelmingly chosen "none of these candidates" as their choice in the state's GOP primary, an embarrassing blow for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who was essentially running unopposed.

From football to F1, Nevada continues to build up its prime-time roster — but will sports fans roll the dice on the city’s latest tourism push?

The hotel and casino goes way back to the very beginnings of Las Vegas.