After a decade in which Las Vegas rose from the depths of the Great Recession to a full recovery, this is an opportune time to look at our future and our immediate past.

No one knows whether Tom Brady will get his sixth championship ring this weekend or Jared Goff will get his first, but one thing is certain: Both starting quarterbacks, along with the more than a million people traveling to Atlanta for the Super Bowl, will use the bathroom.

A group of UNLV freshmen took home an award at CES this month as part of Beasley Media Group’s inaugural Media Innovation Hackathon.

At the Sands Expo and Convention Center, among hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of CES tech show attendees from around the world, one booth was distinctly Las Vegas. UNLV has been exhibiting at the annual tech show since 2014.

In the depths of the downturn, most analysts agreed: Almost no state was hit harder than Nevada.

It’s known as the final frontier, and there are still so many questions. UNLV researchers are hoping to unlock the answer to how planets form and are now one step closer after finding a group of young planets in distant solar systems.

Seven years ahead of schedule, University of Nevada, Las Vegas is now the first public university in Nevada to achieve “Tier 1” status.

UNLV has accomplished one of its major goals — a classification as a “Tier 1” university — seven years ahead of schedule.

UNLV is now ranked as one of the top research schools in the country — the first college in Nevada to receive the designation.

As new graduates were receiving their diplomas Tuesday during UNLV’s winter commencement, the university got another major reason to celebrate.

How does paternity express itself in a diverse array of ways?

Researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas say the 20 nearby protoplanetary disks observed in the study suggest there may be a greater number of large, young planets in our galaxy than previously expected.