When Amber Turner was about 13, her parents bought her a telescope for Christmas. She’d check out the stars and wonder what was up there.

UNLV has partnered with Millennial Esports this semester to teach students about the business side of the competitive video game circuit.

If any group of people should know about the sun and how to live in it, its Nevadans.

Second grader Hailey Dawson got a little closer to realizing her dream of throwing the first pitch at every Major League Baseball park this week. The seven year-old has a 3D-printed hand created by the engineering department at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, due to a rare congenital disorder that left her without three fingers since birth.

Technology companies want the wastewater. The cities produce a steady supply of it.

This little girl has big baseball dreams. Hailey Dawson, a 7-year-old from Las Vegas who uses a 3-D printed hand, wants to break the world record for the number of ceremonial first pitches at every Major League Baseball stadium — and teams are lining up to let her in.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke left much to the public imagination when he submitted his review of the 26 national monuments designated since 1996. His eight-paragraph summary mentioned no monuments by name. Zinke did, however, seek to make one point clear: “...there is no doubt that President [Donald] Trump has the authority to review and consider recommendations to modify or add a monument.”

UNLV is getting a new laser-scanning microscope, which officials say might help recruit researchers and will be available to other Nevada students.

A young researcher seeks to make the Southwest more resilient to climate change.