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Words Matter: How CEOs Talk About the Future Can Sway Investors — But Only If It’s Written Down

UNLV study shows that what corporate leaders say, and how they say it, can change how people invest their money.
31-Mar-2025 5:45 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Study Unlocks How Diabetes Distorts Memory and Reward Processing

Type 2 diabetes may rewire the brain in ways that mimic early Alzheimer’s disease — and UNLV researchers say the “why” may lie in a previously unexplored connection between high blood sugar levels and a key part of the brain called the...
26-Mar-2025 8:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Raising the Stakes on Practice

UNLV's PGA golf management program is partnering with Evenplay, an AI company, to replicate the jitters that come from a stressful shot -- in a controlled environment. And then training yourself to handle the pressure before you step onto the course.
14-Mar-2025 8:50 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Roving the Red Planet: New Paper Documents First Mars Mission Soil Samples

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return from Mars. We checked in with the UNLV astrobiologist leading the specimen selection team for intel on what the samples so far...
6-Feb-2025 8:00 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Watershed Moment: Engineers Invent High-Yield Atmospheric Water Capture Device for Arid Regions

As a megadrought stresses the water supply throughout the Southwest, revolutionary research out of UNLV is answering this problem with a groundbreaking technology that pulls large amounts of water from the air in low humidity.
24-Oct-2024 7:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Not Running Dry: UNLV Project Tackles Water Scarcity in Rural Communities

A UNLV research team is developing sustainable water management solutions for rural arid areas in the U.S. and China, focusing on wastewater reuse through solar-powered treatment processes. The project aims to provide low-cost technologies for...
17-Oct-2024 6:45 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Tourist Safety Institute Launches Program to Support Emotional Wellness in First Responders

A new program designed by the UNLV Tourist Safety Institute is helping Nevada Highway State Patrol employees focus on their social and emotional wellness.
2-Oct-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

UNLV Receives Federal Funding to Study Effects of Low Dose Radiation Exposure on Breast Cancer Risk

Three-year grant from U.S. Dept. of Energy will highlight AI-based and experimental learning to understand effects of occupational and medical radiation.
30-Sep-2024 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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UNLV Expert: Regenerating the Brain After a Stroke

UNLV Brain Health researcher Lina Nih is developing a treatment that could one day alter how practitioners address stroke recovery.
16-Dec-2024 8:25 PM EST

UNLV Expert Available: Christmas Traditions — From Santa Claus to the Gingerbread Man

‘Tis the season for UNLV folklore expert Katherine Walker to guide us through some of the holiday season’s holliest and jolliest customs.
9-Dec-2024 3:00 PM EST

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How EVs, Environmental Disasters & Even Online Shopping Shape the Future of Transportation

“Tell me the numbers, I’ll take care of the politics.” Shashi Nambisan, director of the Transportation Research Center (TRC) at UNLV, recalled a pivotal discussion in the early 1990s with then-County Commissioner Bruce L. Woodbury about the...
1-Nov-2024 5:15 PM EDT

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