In The News: Division of Research
Americans are known around the world for eating too much, but when it comes to time, we are starving ourselves. It’s called “time famine” – an unpleasant, uncomfortable feeling that we have too much to do in too little time. Social scientists have been studying it for more than 20 years.
Las Vegas may no longer be just the entertainment capital of the world.
Jeremy Aguero, principal analyst for Las Vegas-based Applied Analysis, said the city is well on its way to becoming the sports and entertainment capital of the world, with the introduction of professional sports teams like the Vegas Golden Knights and, eventually, the Raiders.
Your Krispy Kreme Doughnuts experience may not have been quite like Marc-Andre Fleury's, but it was probably just as exciting.
Dr. Deborah Kuhls talks about her experience as a trauma surgeon treating gunshot victims as the feud between the National Rifle Association and the medical community still rages on, with the latest round coming from physicians who released an editorial saying they disagree with the NRA.
We're surrounded by sounds like cars driving, planes flying, trees blowing in the wind every day.
It’s time for a dinosaur update.
A few years ago, UNLV researchers were tasked with trying to figure out what kind of prehistoric animal made tracks that were fossilized in the area of Gold Butte National Monument.
These days millions of people are turning to the sounds of whispering,tapping, and scratching to help them relax and de-stress.
A geology professor with the ҳ| 鶹ýӳ discovered a set of footprints that were left behind by a reptile-like creature 310 million years ago at the Grand Canyon.
ҳ| 鶹ýӳ 315 million years ago — long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth — an early reptile scuttled along in a strangely sideways jaunt, leaving its tiny footprints embedded in the landscape, new research finds.
Four out of the five largest fires in California history have occurred in the last six years.
In recent years authorities in California have reported an increase in such large, explosive and swiftly spreading wildfires over a virtually year-round fire season.
The cost in lives and property from megafires is growing as more Americans build homes in or around forests and woodlands.