If any group of people should know about the sun and how to live in it, its Nevadans.

Second grader Hailey Dawson got a little closer to realizing her dream of throwing the first pitch at every Major League Baseball park this week. The seven year-old has a 3D-printed hand created by the engineering department at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, due to a rare congenital disorder that left her without three fingers since birth.

This little girl has big baseball dreams. Hailey Dawson, a 7-year-old from Las Vegas who uses a 3-D printed hand, wants to break the world record for the number of ceremonial first pitches at every Major League Baseball stadium — and teams are lining up to let her in.

The whole moment has many reminding themselves of the "good" of social media. And the baddassery of Hailey.

A 7-year-old with a 3D–printed hand wants to throw out the first pitch at every MLB stadium. And Major League Baseball teams want to make it happen.

7-year-old Hailey Dawson wants to throw out the first pitch at every MLB ballpark with her 3-D printed hand

Building a house with no prior experience is tough enough, but imagine constructing one knowing that you would soon have to split it into multiple parts and transport it out of state. That is just part of the challenge that 30 UNLV students face as they prepare for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2017 competition next month. The winning school takes home $300,000.

At its August 9 regular meeting, Lake Arrowhead Community Services District (LACSD) heard from experts on recycled water about their interest in conducting a study using Lake Arrowhead to “evaluate approaches to determine mixing and assimilation of recycled water.”

A group of Nevada researchers plans to take solar eclipse viewing to new heights. They’re launching a balloon outfitted with cameras to the edge of space just as the eclipse shadow rolls over eastern Oregon and Idaho. The idea is to capture unique images from the first total solar eclipse viewable from the contiguous United States since 1979.

Heather Wilde is CTO of both ROCeteer and TWIP. In this exclusive interview, Wilde shares with TechNewsWorld her insights on how women can get ahead in tech, offering pearls of wisdom like this one: "Don't just stick with the girls."

A gender gap persists in science, technology, engineering and math, a problem that researchers say could begin to be understood and then solved through research. U.S. Rep. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., has introduced two pieces of legislation to address the issue. The Building Blocks of STEM and Code Like a Girl acts both seek to fund research into early childhood STEM education.

If slow and steady wins the race to the future, UNLV is gaining on the competition. Here are three ways the university’s tech-savvy students and faculty are making a difference.