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Lucky unlucky Henderson woman beat pancreatic cancer’s odds

Mary Kay Duda, 75, hit a streak of bad luck when doctors found a large tumor growing on her pancreas. But she also got a few lucky breaks and beat the often deadly disease by undergoing a risky surgery called the “Whipple procedure.”

Nevada researchers trace rise, fall of Roman Empire through ice

Scientists from the Desert Research Institute in Nevada have pioneered a way to pinpoint pivotal moments in Western civilization using ancient lead pollution trapped deep inside the Greenland ice sheet.

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Cleanup aims to redeem geologic wonder east of Las Vegas

A coalition of government agencies and civic groups are leading a volunteer clean-up at the Great Unconformity Interpretive Site at the base of Frenchman Mountain just off Lake Mead Boulevard.

Las Vegas weather forecasting not full of hot air, but helium

Every day at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m., a National Weather Service staffer in Las Vegas office launches a weather balloon into the sky, providing a vertical snapshot of the atmosphere that meteorologists can’t get from instruments on the ground.

Interior unveils plans to roll back sage grouse protections

The Interior Department released revised planning documents Wednesday formalizing the Trump administration’s push to relax protections for the greater sage grouse in Nevada and 10 other states.

New space-age nuclear reactor passes Nevada test

Reasearchers announced Wednesday that the Kilopower fission reactor performed better than expected during a 28-hour, full-power test completed on March 21 inside a vacuum chamber at the Nevada National Security Site.