In many ways, Stormy Daniels’ path into the porn industry reads like a cliched tale of girl-makes-it-big-in-the-adult-business. She started out as an exotic dancer, then segued into the adult entertainment industry to build up her brand and earn more money. She looks every inch the prototypical porn star -- bleach blonde and beautiful with big breasts -- and was quickly signed in 2002 by one of the industry’s biggest studios, Wicked Pictures, as a “contract girl.”

Aquatic plant found in the Pyrenees could help unlock our plant's deepest mysteries

I study one of the most profound cultural changes of the 20th century: the rise of casual dress.

Our friends in Boulder City—and around Nevada and Arizona and California—are justly proud of Hoover Dam. Its construction made the growth of these areas possible, or at least more possible. Certainly, Las Vegas couldn’t have the population it has without the water from Lake Mead. And we wouldn’t be having the debates we’re having about water and our future, either.

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

Biologists believe that gender has a more complex spectrum, and that the idea of ​​dividing people into two genders is too simple. But these findings will be out of place in a world of duality that is either or both.

The siren call of an open seat is proving an allure to Nevada members of Congress who were not giving the U.S. Senate a second thought when incumbent Sen. Harry Reid was in line to run again.

We canvassed the world of the social and behavioral sciences, looking for rising stars whose careers promise to make a lasting mark. Rachael Robnett runs UNLV’s Social Development Research Lab, where she studies why women and minorities are under-represented in science-related fields.