Much like the origins of Valentine’s Day, the real identity of St. Valentine remains a bit of a mystery. The holiday’s namesake, a martyred priest, actually could have been one of multiple men. Although many think of him as the patron saint of lovers, this reputation likely began centuries after his death.

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.

Public voting is now open for the Third Annual Sphere XO Student Design Challenge, where student artwork will compete to be displayed on the Exosphere.

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.

Students from the Clark County School District and UNLV were invited to submit artwork as they thought "creatively about the intersection of art and science." Winners will be chosen from a mix of public voting and artist judging.

The UNLV Rebel Girls & Company captured two national championships for the second straight year at the 2026 Universal Dance Association College Nationals in Orlando. UNLV won the Division IA Hip Hop and Division IA Game Day Dance titles, earning the program's seventh national championship in each of the two categories. 

Rabbi Cookie Olshein of Congregation Ner Tamid and the Rev. Adrian Doll, senior pastor of Green Valley Presbyterian Church, stood together to light three tall blue candles adorned with the Star of David at King David Memorial Chapel’s Holocaust Remembrance Garden.

Perhaps no U.S. Olympian has had quite the meteoric rise as bobsled star Kaysha Love. Before 2020, the Utah native had not even competed on the ice track, but entering the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, Love has as much momentum as any athlete in the sport.