When students from Washington University in St. Louis embarked on creating an energy-efficient home for this year’s Solar Decathlon, they chose an unlikely building material: concrete. Aesthetic preferences didn’t drive their decision. Instead, they picked concrete—over materials like wood and metal—because of its ability to withstand tornados, hurricanes, and floods. “We chose it because of its resiliency, which is pertinent now more than ever,” said Adam Goldberg, a graduate architecture student at WashU.

Stem cells have the potential to revolutionize treatment for a wide array of diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, though harvesting enough of them for beneficial use and keeping them viable until they are needed presents significant challenges. So, researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), have developed an efficient technique for taking these cells from a common source—wisdom teeth.

The UNLV Rebels will pay tribute to the lives lost during the shooting this coming weekend.

Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas may have pierced the gun lobby’s no-exceptions resistance to compromise.

Vice President Mike Pence, who chairs the revived National Space Council, wrote today in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that "America will be the first nation to bring mankind to Mars." These plans follow Elon Musk's announcement last week that a small group of astronauts will be ready to leave Earth in 2024 and head to Mars. But is all this possible in just seven years as a continuation of the technological advances we've seen, or are significant science and engineering breakthroughs needed to reach their goals?

When she was under fire, dodging bullets at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Sunday, Megan Greene felt an odd sense of purpose. "If you're still breathing, you're fine," she told a panicky woman trying to escape with her mother, who uses a wheelchair.

Jill Roberts heard the screaming and crying in the Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center emergency room Sunday night as the families and friends of those killed in the Route 91 Harvest music festival shooting found out their loved ones didn’t survive the attack.

The SIFMA organization formally voiced concerns to the state’s securities division.

The original name was Project Paradise. It was to be a 42-story, billion-dollar resort featuring “an exotic South Seas theme,” a swim-up shark exhibit and a trefoil footprint with a facade of gold leaf. By the time it was built on the burial ground of the 11-story Hacienda — an antique family-centric hotel and casino that was imploded on live TV on New Year’s Eve 1996 — Project Paradise had been renamed after a British poet’s nostalgic (and imperial) ode to the exoticism of south Asia.