A new scientific paper published this week alleges that southern Nevadans are being exposed to unhealthy levels of asbestos and that people might be dying as a result.

We all want things that make life better. Some might be materialistic — a new car, a new house, a new TV, a new outfit. But our most important aspirations have more intrinsic value. We want good health for ourselves and our families, and access to high-quality health care. And we want our children and grandchildren to receive a good education, not only for their sake but so Nevada can provide the kind of trained workforce necessary to lure top-shelf business and industry.

Construction, consumer spending and tourism are driving this economy.

For enthusiasts of space travel, the bad news keeps coming. A new study, just published in Science Advances, finds that the smartest humans who will be chosen to go to Mars may not remain smart by the time they reach their destination (if at all they do).

Gail Kaiser has spent much of her life here on Lake Mead, with its crystal blue water pouring into canyons and splintering off like blood vessels into coves and bays, forming the vast reservoir that stretches into two states.

More and more studies show that our idea of ​​two sexes is too simplistic - not only anatomically, but genetically as well.

Robots build cars, vacuum floors and complete sophisticated, minimally invasive medical procedures. But there’s still one thing they can’t do, a scientific head-scratcher that continues to distinguish machines from human beings: While a robot might outsmart a single human, it cannot defeat two.

The idea of breaking up the Clark County School District has been around for decades without really going anywhere — until now.

If you are a typical American, especially one who was born and raised here as we were, you probably believe—know—as we did that, Americans have a lock on fried chicken. Then we met Salve Vargas Edelman, who took us to her favorite Manila chicken joint. But this place, Max’s Restaurant, wasn’t in Manila. It was in Las Vegas, in a strip mall, a few miles past Caesars Palace, and it was there that we were fortuitously, deliciously, humbled.