As summer winds down, researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, are looking into mosquito data. UNLV’s School of Public Health is asking individuals in the Las Vegas Valley to fill out a survey about bugs inhabiting neighborhoods in the area.

For the second week, Nevada continues to suffer the fallout from a massive cyberattack. Officials took state-run websites offline on Sunday, August 24th, when they first noticed signs of the incursion. Since then, they’ve worked to create temporary workarounds to connect Nevadans with services and recovery updates. However, it appears to be slow going.

According to a new report from the European Heart Journal, a common heart attack drug doesn't appear to be working as intended and in some cases can even raise the risk of death for some women. To break down the details, Dr. Marc J. Kahn, Professor and Chief of Hematology at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV joins us on ARC Las Vegas.

As Las Vegas grapples with a summer tourism slump, visitors are expressing mixed opinions about the affordability of hotel room rates.

A travel advisory issued over the deadly chikungunya virus has been expanded as it continues to spread around the world. The virus, which is spread by the Aedes mosquito, can cause sudden, agonizing joint pain in the hands and feet that can be so severe it leaves sufferers unable to move normally for months.

All around us is a rich world for us to experience. Inside our minds, we have our own understanding of the world, ourselves, and everything in it. How does the brain do any of this? There’s all this information that we have access to in our minds, but how does the brain represent information? What does information in the brain even mean? These are some of the greatest questions that humans have ever pondered, but neuroscience has made great strides in answering them.

Youth tobacco use in Southern Nevada is surging, fueled by the rising popularity of electronic cigarettes — a trend that has compelled the Southern Nevada Health District to declare youth vaping a “serious public health concern.”

In mid-August, the science journal Nature published UNLV research about a newly discovered species of human ancestors. A group of scientists traveled to Ethiopia, where they found 13 teeth fossils. Some of them belonged to the genus Homo — yes, the same genus modern humans belong to. But they also found a set of teeth that belonged to a new species of the genus Australopithecus, indicating that both species were present in Africa at the same time a little over 2 million years ago. 

Expect the Hispanic and Latino community’s contributions to the U.S. economy to be nothing short of monumental in the coming decades. Not only is this demographic expected to make up 28% of the U.S. population by 2060 — translating into large buying power. In addition, nearly one in four new businesses is Hispanic-owned.