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Phys.org

And you thought you could hold your breath for a long time. Enter the desert pupfish, a tiny fish that has been playing evolutionary catch-up due to the extreme changes in its environment over the last 10,000 years.

Softpedia News

The desert pupfish has evolved to go without oxygen for considerable periods of time to survive its harsh environment

Las Vegas Sun
The law values human life by punishing people who take it. Against this landscape, self-defense — or the law of justifiable homicide — carves out a narrow exception.
Geo News

A 2.8-million-year-old jawbone fossil with five intact teeth unearthed in an Ethiopian desert is pushing back the dawn of humankind by about half a million years.

FOCUS Online

What sounds a bit like science fiction is everyday hospital reality for Verma - and she's not the only one. Physician and researcher James Mah of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, for example, creates virtual 3D copies of patients, as he explained at the AAAS conference.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The relict leopard frog’s journey into Southern Nevada’s landscape has seen its share of challenges.

New Scientist

In 2010, a middle-aged Texan man named Billy Crawford went to hospital to check out an odd black dot on his nose.

Las Vegas Weekly

We’re looking at the heavy-duty digits of a Hubo humanoid robot hanging in his 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ engineering lab, and Paul Oh is trying to help me understand why they’re not as elegant as mine. Yet.

CPA

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants has announced that students from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas have earned first place in the 2014 AICPA Accounting Competition. Their top finish in the competition earned a $5,000 award for their school.

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