UNLV recently released a report with findings on the first ever handpicked samples from Mars.

The UNLV campus is mourning the loss of one of its own after learning on Tuesday that a student-athlete passed away.

UNLV has shared that a member of its football program has passed away. Wednesday morning, the Clark County Coroner identified the student-athlete as Benjamin Christman, 21. His cause and manner of death are still unknown.

The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the UNLV football player found dead at his off-campus residence. Ben Christman, 21, was a senior transfer who had played on the offensive line the past two seasons for Kentucky. He was also part of the Ohio State program for two seasons.

A student-athlete for the UNLV football team has died, the university announced on Tuesday. The Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner identified the student on Wednesday as 21-year-old Benjamin Christman.

A bill that would move the celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day to the same date as Columbus Day was presented at the Nevada Legislature on Tuesday, adding to a slate of bills related to the state’s Native American communities.

Oral History Research Center Director Claytee White shares stories people have told her over the years about Las Vegas and explains the importance of recording these memories for historical record.

The American Southwest is running dry—literally. Lake Mead, the lifeline of Las Vegas, is shrinking at an alarming rate, and the city that defied nature is now facing one of its toughest challenges yet. But in true Vegas fashion, this city of reinvention is fighting back. From pioneering water conservation efforts to groundbreaking innovations like WAVR, a system that harvests water straight from the air, scientists and engineers are racing against time to secure the region’s future. Meanwhile, researchers are turning to an unlikely hero—cacti—as a potential solution for drought-resistant agriculture and even biofuel.

In the early 1600s, Galileo Galilee trained a telescope of his own making on Jupiter and spotted its four largest moons. Four centuries later, scientists are still seeking to understand exactly how those moons formed billions of years ago from a swirling disk of gas, dust, and ice that once surrounded the infant planet. Now, a new computer simulation suggests shadows cast by the inner region of that circumplanetary disk (CPD) may have created cold spots in the wispier outer region, creating the physical conditions needed for those materials to congeal into the moons Galileo spotted.