For all the exceptional artists who’ve had a presence in Las Vegas, there’s been little more than a paper trail to mark their time here, no solid heritage collection to showcase works, ideas and discussions that evolved or transpired—aside from a chunk of works in the Las Vegas Art Museum collection. And so when the Barrick Museum switched its focus from natural history to art, it moved swiftly to build one...

What better way to learn about chemistry than a baking exercise?

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s demand to revisit the Confederate battle flag’s placement on the Statehouse grounds is sparking a national conversation beyond the emblem, with some leaders calling for statues and nicknames associated with the Confederacy to go as well.

Gov. Sandoval signs bill giving $27 million to UNLV

The campaign to raise $6 million in scholarships for the first class of students at UNLV’s medical school was supposed to last the rest of the year.

Joshua Wolf Shenk is a best-selling author living in Southern California.

UNLV was among 23 of the world’s best robotics teams competing in the 2015 U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Challenge Finals, an elite competition of robots and their human supervisors, on June 5-6 at the Fairplex in Pomona, California.

Needles, pills and patches may become tools of the past for some medications, including those used for oral pain medications, nail fungus and possibly diabetes.

Summer has arrived, and with higher temperatures and sunny weather comes the increased chance that we two-legged desert creatures will interact, unexpectedly and potentially painfully, with some of our four-, six-, eight- and no-legged desert neighbors.